Rahul Gandhi also lashed out at BJP and RSS, claiming that “propaganda and lies” are their basis. (File)
New Delhi:
By accusing BJP leaders, including former Union minister Rajyavardhan Rathore, of sharing “deliberately fabricated and distorted reports” about Rahul Gandhi’s comments in Kerala, the Congress threatened to take legal action against them on Saturday if the BJP rebelled. wouldn’t apologize.
Rahul Gandhi also lashed out at the BJP and the RSS, claiming that “propaganda and lies” are their basis.
The opposition party attacked Mr Rathore, calling him “shameless” after Twitter labeled a post by him on a video of Rahul Gandhi’s comments in Kerala as “media presented out of context”.
In a letter to BJP chief JP Nadda, Congress General Secretary in charge of communications, Jairam Ramesh, said he was shocked to find that several BJP leaders deliberately and enthusiastically shared “mischievous reportage that was posted at 9 p.m. yesterday.” took place on Zee News”.
The channel later apologized, with anchor Rohit Ranjan saying: “Yesterday in our show DNA, Rahul Gandhi’s statement was taken in the wrong context by linking it to the Udaipur incident, it was a human error for which our team apologizes.” .”
In his letter to Mr Nadda, Mr Ramesh said that the original video was of Mr Gandhi’s comment about the SFI violence at his office in Wayanad, but that it was “deliberately and mischievously manipulated” to appear as if it were a comment was about the horrific murder of Kanhaiya Lal in Udaipur.
It was immediately brought to the attention of all involved that the report was false and intentionally misleading, he said.
“What is even more worrying is that several of your party colleagues, including Rajyavardhan Rathore, MP, Subrat Pathak, MP, Kamlesh Saini, MLA and others, have enthusiastically and without verification published and shared the deliberately fabricated and distorted report.” Mr Ramesh said in his letter.
“Despite warnings from my party colleagues that the clip was maliciously false and misleading, Rathore continued to amplify the same, first deleting and then re-uploading,” he said.
This leaves no doubt that Mr. Rathore’s actions were intentional and part of your party’s strategy to defame the party’s former president of Congress and to advance an already sensitive communal situation. polarize, claimed Mr Ramesh.
“The fact that some of your colleagues may have deleted the false report later after uploading and sharing is not an excuse because the damage has already been done,” he said.
“We have already taken appropriate legal action against the original broadcaster. We expect that you and your party colleagues will stop spreading such falsehoods,” Ramesh said in his statement to Nadda.
In addition, I expect that you will immediately issue an appropriate apology on behalf of your colleagues who have acted with such reckless disregard for the truth.
“If this apology is not issued today, we will take appropriate legal action against your party and its leaders who insist and persist in using social media in such a blatantly irresponsible and criminal manner,” Mr Ramesh warned.
There was no immediate response from the BJP.
In a clear reference to the matter, Rahul Gandhi said in a tweet in Hindi: “All of India knows the history of BJP-RSS warming its hands by pushing the country into the fire of hatred.
“As much as these traitors try to break the country, Congress will continue to do more work to unite India,” he said.
The head of the communications department, Pawan Khera, said the BJP leaders who released “fake video” of Rahul Gandhi should be ready to travel around the country as they will have to visit the courts of many cities.
“Doctored Shameless Rathore has the honor of being labeled by @twitter as a man posting fake content,” Mr Khera tweeted, sharing a screenshot of Twitter’s flag of Mr Rathore’s post.
Supriya Srinate, the congressional social media officer, also criticized the BJP for sharing the video to mislead people, calling Rathore a “fake news seller”.
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