Sunday, 22 May, 2022
TopicBJP IT cell

Topic: BJP IT cell

From ‘I had idli’ to political megaphone, how tiny Twitter punches above its weight in India

Regina Mihindukulasuriya -
Twitter has far less reach than WhatsApp or even Facebook, so why do political parties think it’s so important?

BJP turns focus on UP IT cell, lays out strategy to boost social media presence for polls

Shanker Arnimesh -
The BJP is in the process of enrolling 1,63,000 IT coordinators and members for its social media units to be set up across the Uttar Pradesh.

Introspection — ‘New Year resolution’ for political parties & Modi’s call for facts

Tenzin Zompa -
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‘Manipulated media’ — Twitter flags BJP IT cell head Amit Malviya’s farmer protest tweet

Regina Mihindukulasuriya -
Malviya had claimed Rahul Gandhi’s tweet showing a cane-wielding policeman charging an old farmer was ‘propaganda’, but fact-checkers have shown it was real.

Justice for SSR campaign is now a free-for-all abuse circus. BJP IT cell has been overtaken

Jyoti Yadav -
Behind the campaign to get ‘justice’ for Sushant Singh Rajput is a troll army that has replaced middle-class Indians who were grieving the loss of a young Bollywood actor.

First Sushma Swaraj, now Subramanian Swamy. BJP IT cell is cannibalising its own

Prashant -
BJP MP Subramanian Swamy has demanded the party sack various anonymous IT cell members, including their chief Amit Malviya.

Locker room boys to IT cell men: India’s rape culture grows without shame or consequences

Jyoti Yadav -
If Delhi school boys on Instagram privately plan to rape underage girls, then men from IT cells of political parties publicly threaten women on Twitter and Facebook.

Indians are fighting against coronavirus and BJP IT cell is fighting against Indians

Jyoti Yadav -
Amit Shah had once said BJP workers have the power to make anything go viral, even fake news. The IT cell is proving just that during a global pandemic.

BJP vs AAP memes: Have Delhi elections been reduced to a battle of IT cells?

ThePrint Team -
The campaigning for Delhi assembly election seems to have become a meme fest between the IT cells of the BJP and AAP.

Injured infants in images viral on social media are not victims of Citizenship Act protests

Unnati Sharma -
Some social media users, including a member of BJP’s IT Cell, shared images of wounded children claiming they were injured during the Citizenship Act protests.
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Title scene of Taarak Mehta ka ooltah chashmah.

Dear Taarak Mehta, you were our peak comfort content for 14 years. Now it’s time to retire

Yashika Singla -
Just like the Truman Show, all Taarak Mehta plots somehow feel the same for the past few years. It's fine to accept that ideas can go stale.
The Gyanvapi Mosque and Kashi Vishwanath Temple, Varanasi | Photo: Praveen Jain | ThePrint

Gyanvapi row and Places of Worship Act were born together. Now each wants to end the other

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The LIC way or the Air India way — that is the multi-crore disinvestment question

Economy

An attendant refills a two-wheeler with fuel at a petrol pump in New Delhi Saturday | ANI

Under fire for spiraling inflation, Modi govt announces excise duty cut on fuels, LPG subsidy

Shubham Batra -
It has also decided to enhance the fertiliser subsidy for farmers, and reduce import duty on some raw materials. ‘It is always people first for us!’ tweets prime minister.

Defence

File photo of a defence personnel armed with a SiG 716 rifle near the Line of Control | Photo: Snehesh Alex Philip | ThePrint

India to ink ‘repeat order’ deal for 73,000 SiG 716 rifles from the US

Snehesh Alex Philip -
In February 2019, 72,400 SiG 716 rifles of 7.62 x 51mm calibre were contracted from SIG Sauer Inc, USA, under government's 'Buy (Global) category', through fast track procedure.

National Interest

Mandir or Masjid? New surveys not needed, just acceptance of truth & move towards reconciliation

Shekhar Gupta -
That temples were destroyed and mosques built is undisputed history. The past can’t be changed, but we can’t deny the wrongs of the past either before we consider reconciliation.

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