Why does Narendra Modi follow trolls on Twitter, asks author Swati Chaturvedi
8 years, 2 months ago

Why does Narendra Modi follow trolls on Twitter, asks author Swati Chaturvedi

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The book also lists out a few handles, which regularly troll anyone who critiques Modi, with rape and death threats and says that Modi follows these handles. Every investigation has a luck factor,” said Swati, “And for me that was Sadhvi Khosla.” Sadhvi is a former volunteer at the BJP social media cell. Sadhvi told Swati that after Aamir Khan’s remarks on intolerance last November, BJP’s social media cell made it their one-point agenda to attack the actor and forced Snapdeal to dump him as their brand ambassador. Khosla, who runs a knowledge process outsourcing company in Gurugram, was in the US in 2014 when she got the call from Modi’s social media team and told Chaturvedi that she was ecstatic at the offer and believed that Modi, “her idol, the man she wanted to see as the Prime Minister of India”, would bring in all the positive change and development that he promised. Speaking to National General Secretary of BJP Ram Madhav, Swati, in the chapter, notes that it was Madhav, who was one of the first in the party to spearhead the use of social media: “Madhav went from shakha to shakha training them after convincing a reluctant RSS that it was a powerful communication tool and not mere ‘fashion’.” Given the history of the organisation a sense of insecurity runs in the organisation."

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