The Free Press Journal

‘BJP conspiracy to put pressure on celebritie­s to tweet exposed’

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‘ After our demand to probe if celebritie­s were arm twisted by BJP, not a single celebrity came forth and said that it was his or her own opinion. Our demand was right. BJP’s IT Cell and 12 influencer­s have been found involved. Further inquiry will unmask BJP’s huge conspiracy against India. -Sachin Sawant, Maharashtr­a Pradesh Congress Committee spokesman

Congress, on Tuesday, claimed that the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) conspiracy to put pressure on celebritie­s to tweet on farmers’ protest was exposed following the police investigat­ion. The Maharashtr­a Pradesh Congress Committee spokesman Sachin Sawant, who had demanded inquiry into similar tweets from celebritie­s, said that the party’s allegation that the BJP pressured celebritie­s to tweet against the farmers' agitation has proved to be true.

“After our demand to probe if celebritie­s were arm twisted by BJP, not a single celebrity came forth and said that it was his or her own opinion. Our demand was right. BJP’s IT Cell and 12 influencer­s have been found involved. Further inquiry will unmask BJP’s huge conspiracy against India,” said Sawant in a tweet. He demanded that the police should take immediate action against BJP IT cell and 12 others. “Even though BJP president JP Nadda, Union Minister Prakash Javedkar and former Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis have tried to cover up the BJP's conspiracy, the silence of these celebritie­s says a lot about the BJP's conspiracy,” he alleged. Sawant’s statement came a day after Home Minister Anil Deshmukh announced that a preliminar­y probe by the Maharashtr­a Police has revealed that the BJP’s IT cell chief and 12 other influencer­s were involved in the case pertaining to the tweets by celebritie­s that had similar hashtags like #IndiaToget­her and #IndiaAgain­stPropagad­a to counter the tweets posted by foreign celebritie­s who had come out in support of the Indian farmers.

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