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In a blunder that will haunt the Bharatiya Janata Party for a long time to come, its famed IT cell head Amit Malviya appears to have delivered yet another dud. Just days after his own twitter poll failed to get him the validation he sought; his team of trolls have produced an epic gaffe!
Instead of tweets supporting the Citizenship Amendment Act or CAA as it is now widely known, the supporters have gone ahead to trend a hashtag with a completely wrong name. It says – #IndiaSupportsCCA.
Not only has this hashtag been used by BJP supporters without any verification, but also BJP leaders who have gone ahead to blindly tweet in favour of the CAA using the same.
Amit Malviya, the man himself.
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This train was burnt down by anti-CAA rioters in West Bengal.
Those who torched this train didn’t have tiranga and Bapu’s picture in their hands… They were arsonists.
संविधान की रक्षा के नाम पर सड़क पर उतरे ये दंगाई, देश जला रहे हैं। #IndiaSupportsCCA pic.twitter.com/iS7pkzQ6nd
— Amit Malviya (@amitmalviya) December 30, 2019
Jagdish Vishwakarma, BJP President, Ahmedabad who also literally copy pasted Malviya’s tweet.
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• This train was burnt down by anti-CAA rioters in West Bengal.
Those who torched this train didn’t have tiranga and Bapu’s picture in their hands… They were arsonists.
संविधान की रक्षा के नाम पर सड़क पर उतरे ये दंगाई, देश जला रहे है #IndiaSupportsCCA pic.twitter.com/WKjyRfQ59h
— Jagdish Vishwakarma (@MLAJagdish) December 30, 2019
Ashwani Mahajan, National Co-Convenor of the Swadeshi Jagran Manch, an affiliate of the RSS.
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#IndiaSupportsCCA See how Hindus are humiliated and persecuted in Pakistan. I fail to understand how a person who calls himself human can oppose #CAA in the name of secularism pic.twitter.com/lqsdbXY47d
— ASHWANI MAHAJAN (@ashwani_mahajan) December 31, 2019
Needless to say, this effort by BJP supporters and party members drew a lot of criticism and trolling by people who caught the obvious error.
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#IndiaSupportsCCA has been trending all day! This is what happens is the country is in the wrong hands. ??♀️ Hey Ram.. save our country!
— Sowmya Reddy (@Sowmyareddyr) December 31, 2019
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OMG bhakts have turned rebels
They are trending #IndiaSupportsCCA
CCA= cancellation of citizenship act . ?
— Gurpreet Garry Walia (@_garrywalia) December 31, 2019
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No. They actually meant ‘Cancel Citizenship Amendment act’ – CCA.#IndiaDoesNotSupportCAA #IndiaSupportsCCA https://t.co/V3aRwqHqMF
— Tinu Cherian Abraham (@tinucherian) December 31, 2019
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AAP CHRONOLOGY SAMAJHIYE
?Pehle CAA
?Phir NRC
?Phir NPR
?Phir CCA trend karega Malviya
?Sabhi bhakt confuse honge
?Phir New Year aayegaWhy are you trending #IndiaSupportsCCA @amitmalviya?
What’s this new CCA? Has too much lying made you lose your mind?? pic.twitter.com/DMARb2OrC3
— Srivatsa (@srivatsayb) December 31, 2019
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India, Support Carefully Checking Alphabets
before tweeting. #IndiaSupportsCCA pic.twitter.com/9faBGCdH1C
— ????? ???? ???? (@aaqibrk) December 31, 2019
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CCA = Copy Cat Association #IndiaSupportsCCA pic.twitter.com/sRvJFU3nLf
— Pratik Sinha (@free_thinker) December 31, 2019
The jury is still out on whether it was intellectual deficiency or lack of attention to detail that led to the faux pas. It looks like the BJP is perfecting its ‘foot in mouth’ technique, first with PM Modi denying that there was ever a discussion about the National Register of Citizens (NRC) during his tenure, saying that there were no detention camps in India when there were already 6 functioning in Assam and now this!
We think that if the BJP is not keen on listening to the citizens that voted it to power, it could at least consult within itself about who says what to the people of India and proofread their work before they put it out. Else, the citizens will be forced to conclude that the entire BJP hierarchy is clueless about its own agenda.