Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut said on Sunday that Union Interior Minister Amit Shah should monitor fake accounts on social media and warned that “illegal use” of social media may backfire on him. government. Raut, in his weekly RokhThok column on Sena’s spokesman Saamana, said that Shah should take the initiative to clean up the bots from social media and that he should start with his own party, the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Raut referred to the 80,000 social media accounts, allegedly created under false identities to discredit the Mumbai police and the Maharashtra government investigation into the death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput to make his point.
“Amit Shah is the Minister of the Interior and should recognize that the illegal use of the cyber army can be destructive to the country and society. Using this army to assassinate opponents and stifle dissent can be counterproductive for the country, ”Raut warned in the column.
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He alleged that the military’s use of social media and incessant attacks on its opponents have become national policy for the BJP and some others.
“BJP won the last two general elections with the help of social media. A poisonous campaign was implemented that would put Goebbels to shame, ”he said, adding that the campaign projected all other leaders, including the leader of Congress, Rahul Gandhi, and former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, as” useless “in front of the Prime Minister. Narendra Modi.
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Raut added, “Amit Shah at an event once said that ‘we can make the news acceptable through our thousands of WhatsApp groups.’ This confidence is good for a party leader but he must not forget that today he has the reins of the country. Social media, which found Rahul Gandhi and Manmohan Singh unhelpful, also mocked our prime minister after a video of him sitting in an army jeep waving his hands through an empty tunnel went viral.
“This is not right…” Raut continued, “In the Sushant case, 80,000 fake accounts were created to smear the Bombay police. 5 million rupees of such fake accounts are active. These illegal activities should be stopped with the help of the law. The country’s interior minister should take the initiative in this regard. And it should start with his party, ”he said.
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