Rss follower1/3/2024 ![]() Lal and his team then went on to identify people whose tweets favoured AAP. I amalgamated the two strategies to create our Twitter approach,” he says. “I also took a cue from online hacktivist group Anonymous, (which happens to be) an Internet gathering with a very loose and decentralised command structure. The AAP social media team was made privy to the right wing organisation’s strategy by an RSS activist named Kapil Rishi Yadav, who volunteered to help the political party while it was still emerging from the shadow of an anti-corruption movement launched by social worker Anna Hazare, he adds.Īccording to Lal, the RSS held special training sessions to teach its swayamsevaks (volunteers) how to create Twitter accounts and use the platform to promote its ideology. The strategy of the RSS – the ideological parent of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) – depended on using its “on-ground network to build an online support base”, writes Lal. Titled India Social, it will be released by AAP national convenor Arvind Kejriwal on November 24 – two days before the party’s fifth founding day. This revelation is part of an upcoming book by Ankit Lal, founder and chief of AAP’s social media cell. It wedded the social media game plan of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) with that of hacker-activist group Anonymous to make an impact in the virtual world. Several other BJP leaders too have targeted Siddaramaiah.īENGALURU: Targeting the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, senior Karnataka Congress leader Siddaramaiah on Friday questioned whether those who belonged to the outfit were "native Indians", "Dravidians" or "Aryans".The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) had its Twitter strategy in place even before the party was launched in November 2012. Which country is she from?" he questioned. "RSS is a patriotic organisation built by people who are sons of this soil, unlike Congress which is in the hands of (Congress president) Sonia Gandhi. Senior BJP leader and MLA K H Eshwarappa said RSS members are those who do not follow a foreign leader, as he demanded that Siddaramaiah apologise to the people of the country for his comments. Karnataka Primary and Secondary Education Minister B C Nagesh said, "My only answer is those in RSS are Indians and followers of its philosophy, and not Italians or with Italian leadership." "BJP national General Secretary C T Ravi said: "He (Siddaramaiah) often sees Bharat and Barateeyate (Indianness) with Macaulay's viewpoint, when the spirit enters." he said. We (the Congress and BJP) may have ideological differences, but Hedgewar was a true patriot and he founded RSS in India. Pointing out that Hedgewar was initially with the Congress and was head of its Seva Dal, he said, "Several Congress leaders have written about his contribution to the freedom struggle and support he gave to revolutionaries. Reacting to Siddaramaiah's comments, Union Minister Pralhad Joshi said the Congress Legislature Party leader either doesn't know the facts or was playing a "drama" to please party leader Rahul Gandhi and appease Muslims. "When there was some controversy and calls for actor Shah Rukh Khan and his family to leave the country.I had told (Defence Minister) Rajnath Singh that you guys have come from central Asia, you are descendants of Hitler, you leave." he said. ![]() Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge, who shared the stage along with Siddaramaiah and other Congress leaders, supported the former CM's comments and said, he too had said the same thing in the Parliament in the past. "If you were all united, why would they (Mughals) have come (and invaded), who gave them the space? Who is responsible for the British to rule this country for 200 years? I don't want to go further on this," he added. Speaking at the event commemorating former prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru's death anniversary here, he asked who was responsible for the Mughals to rule the country for 600 years. "Are these RSS people native Indians? Unnecessarily, we don't want to discuss it and so are quite.are Aryans from this country? Are they Dravidians? We will have to go to their origins," Siddaramaiah said, while speaking on a brewing controversy over a lesson regarding RSS founder Keshav Baliram Hedgewar in school textbooks. The Leader of Opposition in the Karnataka Assembly also blamed the lack of unity within Indian society for the invasion of Mughals and British and their rule for a long period.Īngered by comments against their ideological parent organisation, several BJP leaders have sharply reacted and have hit out at the former chief minister.
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