Congress leader Randeep Singh Surjewala has written to Twitter on the forged Toolkit document allegedly created by certain BJP leaders to gain undue and wrongful political advantage by spreading potentially dangerous, false and fabricated material through their Twitter handles, against the Congress and its leaders.

"In order to bring to your notice, the role played by various Union Minister in the Modi Government to propagate the above-mentioned forged documents through their official Twitter handles, I had addressed an e-mail dated 25.05.2021 to Twitter, Inc. In furtherance of the same, vide your reply dated 25.05.2021, you had asked to provide URLs etc. of the said Tweets of the Union Ministers," he wrote.

This was done with a clear mal-intent to exploit the social media space (Twitter) to spread lies and malicious propaganda throughout the territory of India, added Surjewala.

"You would appreciate that the forged, fabricated material and the claims made under the malicious #CongressToolkitExposed, by the various ministers is identical to the material that has already marked as ‘manipulative media’, by Twitter, on various accounts including that of the BJP Spokesperson- Sambit Patra (@sambitswaraj)- who is also one of the main accused in FIR No. 215/2021 registered by Chhattisgarh Police."

It is also a matter of fact that people tend to believe ‘true’ and take on face value, any information that is put up directly by a Union Minister of the Government of India through his/ her official/ verified Twitter account. Hence, it becomes all the more imperative to tag, ‘manipulative media’, on all such tweets made by Ministers of the Government of India on the above referred forged toolkit document created by the BJP.

It is reasonable to expect that the Union Ministers will be dealt with the same yardstick as applied in other cases where the Twitter platform is misused to broadcast forged and fabricated material and all such tweets tagged as ‘Manipulative Media’ by Twitter, said Surjewala.