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Mar 24 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
1. The article reads dangerously dystopian. The more paranoid will almost wait for a reichstag fire. How that turned out, we know now at a devastating cost. There is a crisis of democracy at hand. The BJP wants you to blow air into it. Avoid the ploy & think. @SupriyaShrinate
2. We can begin by doing a few things. The entire trick is to take the narrative away from hate (BJP) & to Congress (Harmony). Some suggestions are below. Please feel free to add/amend & spread.

Write an open letter to #rahulgandhi. He has been brave & untiring & has faced an
3. incessant wave of vile attacks by the ruling establishment. You can say a sweet #ThankYouRahul or just simply tell him that he’s not alone in the fight. Trust me that matters a lot. Take a SS & post on SM using the # above.

Start Unfollowing & then blocking all the influencer
4. trolls from the BJP like @sambitswaraj @khushsundar @TajinderBagga @Sanjay_Dixit @ShefVaidya & the likes. These hate mongers fees on your hate & become more vile. Cut their oxygen supply & they’ll fade to irrelevance. Why is this important? These cheerleaders of hate are the
5. messangers of Amit Malviya school of lies & propaganda primarily targeted at Rahul Gandhi & INC.

#BharatJodaYatra was such a success because RaGa insisted on Nafrat Chhoro. Today, in a day of debauchery of justice, we must not abandon love & answer hate with more hate.

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Mar 24
1. It’s not about defending #RahulGandhi. It’s about defending India. Why?
RG spoke against Rafale scam
RG spoke against Demonitisation
RG objected to the flawed GST regime
RG spoke against crony capitalism
RG stood with the victims of rape
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2. RG objected to discriminatory CAA-NRC
RG was the 1st to warn against Covid to a gov that didn’t listen
RG questioned the gov on Covid mismanagement, migrant plight, O2 supply
RG spoke against the Adani scam

RG was attacked, mocked, called an anti-national by BJP & Godi media.
3. RG was muted in the Parliament. Now RG stands disqualified as an MP
You can’t defend #RahulGandhi. He has been standing up for you without you realising it, without you acknowledging it. When he spoke about Modi’s conjuring tricks, you mocked him with Aaloo-Sona jest. But he
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1. There is 1 thing that #RahulGandhi is at fault completely. Personal Branding. No, not the narcissistic ways of supreme leader but the inspiring & personal stories that people of India deserve to know.
@SupriyaShrinate
nails 3 here, listen in.
2. The infamous, inhuman & brutal Delhi gang rape case shook both the UPA at the centre & the Congress gov at Delhi. The protests in the aftermath turned into a vile personal attack against the Gandhis & Sheila Dixit led primarily by IAC gang & supported by RSS-BJP. But the story
3. of opportunistic politics that mutated genuine public anguish into personal hatred is rarely spoken of. Rarer is the mention of how #RahulGandhi stood behind the family of Jyoti Singh once the public furore had been satiated & the political ambitions met. He stood, He helped &
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Mar 24
1. There is 1 thing that #RahulGandhi is at fault completely. Personal Branding. No, not the narcissistic ways of supreme leader but the inspiring & personal stories that people of India deserve to know. @SupriyaShrinate nails 3 here, listen in.

2. The infamous, inhuman & brutal Delhi gang rape case shook both the UPA at the centre & the Congress gov at Delhi. The protests in the aftermath turned into a vile personal attack against the Gandhis & Sheila Dixit led primarily by IAC gang & supported by RSS-BJP. But the story
3. of opportunistic politics that mutated genuine public anguish into personal hatred is rarely spoken of. Rarer is the mention of how #RahulGandhi stood behind the family of Jyoti Singh once the public furore had been satiated & the political ambitions met. He stood, He helped &
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Mar 22
1. The stated reasons UPA lost the 2014 General Elections were the charges of corruption that plagued the 10yr rule. CWG, 2G & Coalgate. Mostly the cases were dismissed or trials are still on-going. Beyond the stated goals was the high decibel IAC campaign led by Anna Hazare &
2. Kejriwal. They targeted the Cong on charges of corruption as well as the unfortunate Delhi gangrape case. Before the BJP, it was the IAC & Team Kejriwal that weaponised social media to run slanderous & malafide campaigns of defamation against personalities, namely Sonia Gandhi
3. Sheila Dixit & Rahul Gandhi. It paid off. The UPA gov was caught at the opposite end of PR debacle as it fought off corruption charges, rape cases, Radia tapes, Lokayukta demands with a poorly executed communication plan.
If you remove the corruption charges & consider that
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Mar 22
1. Why is Khalistani movement alive again? It’s happening in the backdrop of,
a. An AAP gov in Punjab that is accused of going soft on separatists
b. Farmers’ protest & the gov’s extreme measures to deal with it
c. A history of RSS Vs Sikh conflicts in Punjab
d. Major upheavals
2. in Pakistan
e. Global conversations around India (G20, Hindenburg, BBC)

Kudos to the IHC in UK for its measured & patriotic response! However, Modi gov seems to be utterly clueless & lacking in action. Though at a time when the EAM Jaishankar is carrying the baton of attack
3. on opposition, it begs the question what is the ministry doing. The attacks are happening not in obscure failed/rogue states. They’re happening in the USA, UK, Aus, Canada even as the PM of India is seen indulging in cricket & golgappa diplomacy!
Has the Indian state become a
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1. There are important lessons to be learnt from @SupriyaShrinate’s annihilation of BJP’s fake news peddler Amit Malviya & Rahul Kanwal, a dedicate godi media acolyte.

a. Focus & not allow Conversation hopping

Ms. Shrinate kept the discussion on fake news, the sole reason of Image
2. existence Malviya’s troll army. The commander-in-chief, Malviya himself was not spared & fully exposed. The RW has a tendency to hop conversation when tackled with tough questions. & a most common tactic is a personal or leadership insinuation. Keep them locked in the
3. conversation & they’ll fall like a house of cards

b. Play on Narratives, Data obfuscates

Malviya began by a non-stop blabbering of data to conjure up the greatness of Modi rule. Supriya didn’t have many, all she did was to bust some of the popular & previous fake narratives
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