Reiterating its charge that the Opposition BJP tried to malign the Maharashtra government using fake and real accounts created by it through IT companies hired by it, the Maharashtra Congress on Wednesday charged that ‘most of these Twitter handles seem to be tweeting at the rate of 25 tweets per minute” on Sushant Singh Raput death case, portraying the MVA government and chief minister Uddhav Thackeray in a poor light.
A delegation of the Maharashtra Congress, led party’s state general secretary and its spokesperson Sachin Sawant met Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh and handed over the information that it had gathered from the “notorious” campaign launched by the BJP against the MVA government and the chief minister in the state.
“The Mumbai Police Commissioner assured us of a thorough investigation of these complaints,” Sawant said.
In a statement issued to the media after the Congress delegates’ meeting with the Mumbai Police Commissioner, Sawant said: “By launching overnight Twitter and Facebook accounts through an hired IT companies, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has unleashed a new wave of terrorism through social media. This neo terrorism is a ploy against democracy and it must be eradicated”.
Sawant said that the BJP had introduced a new trend of launching a preplanned campaign to defame the opposition and tarnish their image through social media. “And for this, thousands of Twitter and Facebook accounts are opened overnight using fake id's and bogus details. The same racket has been used in the Sushant Singh Rajput case. And going by the history, kind and number of tweets and retweets on the issue it looks like it is a deliberate and planned conspiracy against the Maharashtra government,” he said.
“There is an unusual pattern in this, no ordinary user of Facebook or Twitter can post or tweet 40,000 posts in 3 months. Most of these Twitter handles seem to be tweeting at the rate of 25 tweets per minute. All these tweets are generally around the same topic which in this case was the Sushant Singh Rajput (SSR) case. Their hashtags are also common. It is clear from this that some commercial agency was hired to tarnish the image of our police and Maharashtra Government,” Sawant said.