Vindicated, says Congress as Twitter red-flags BJP tweets on ‘toolkit’

NEW DELHI: Citing Twitter’s decision to red-flag tweets of BJP leaders and handles aligned with the party on the alleged “toolkit” as “manipulated”, Congress said its accusation that BJP had forged documents as part of a political conspiracy had been vindicated.
AICC general secretary K C Venugopal said the intent behind BJP’s “forgery” is to defame Congress because it had undertaken selfless relief activities during the pandemic while Modi government and the ruling party refused to acknowledge the problem.
“When Congress is out in the field helping with whatever possible — oxygen, medicine, ambulance etc, the ruling BJP is busy maligning us through absolute fakery. They created fake content just to divert attention from their own failure. We are happy that BJP and its leadership’s bluff has been called. They have been exposed!!” Venugopal said.
He said it is futile to ask BJP chief J P Nadda to crack down on “forgery” by his partymen since he had taken the lead in peddling fake content.
Congress on Friday observed the 30th death anniversary of party mascot and former PM Rajiv Gandhi by kickstarting fresh Covid relief activities “Seva”, based on a plan finalised by AICC’s relief task force headed by veteran Ghulam Nabi Azad.
Azad said the relief plan will be carried out for as long as it was required given that it was going to be a long fight against the pandemic. A weekly review will guide local units on the future focus of relief.
Congress said that since April, the relief work undertaken by the party has resulted in arranging 1,600 ambulances, 1.3 lakh hospital beds, 64,000 ooxygen cylinders, 15 lakh home isolation kits, 3.2 lakh critical medications, 89,000 tele-consultations, 50,000 oxygen concentrator requests, 5,000 plasma requests, 976 doctors for Hello Doctor – the party’s pan-India tele-consultation initiative – besides masks, food and other help like vaccine assistance and money from legislators’ area development funds.