BJP cyber team circulates propaganda tweets on demonetisation

New Delhi: Early this morning, सिर्फ़ News got access to an email that was copied to thousands of people, urging them to begin tweeting more than 40 statements one by one, beginning at 8 AM.

The message read: “Exactly a month ago, on 8th November 2016, Prime Minister Modi launched the decisive fight against black money – on that day 500 and 1000 Rupees ceased to be legal tender. In the last month, we have all seen how black money hoarders have got the shock of their lives, many have been caught, money has come into system, India is moving towards cashless revolution and how the world has admired the ability of Modi to take tough decisions and of Indians to back him with high support.

Here are some tweets, media coverage, infographics, videos we can use.”

This is a common practice among all political parties that have cyber cells to register their presence on social media. The Aam Aadmi Party is foremost in the league, led by Ankit Lal who manages their Facebook account. Their Twitter manager Dilip Kumar Pandey has long moved to full-fledged politics, now appearing on television as an AAP “neta”. The BJP cyber team is headed by Amit Malviya. It was earlier led by Arvind Gupta. Priyanka Chaturvedi heads the Congress cyber team.

The ideas behind circulating pre-drafted tweets are two. First and foremost, these parties wish to create an impression among the uninitiated lot that a certain concern is very popular among the people, because of which they are all tweeting about it at the same time. Second, the cyber teams realise that people at large may not be good at articulation. Therefore, they send these 140-character statements in bulk to make life easy for the inarticulate.

That the tweets are not spontaneous is, however, easy to catch. At the peak Internet hours when they are tweeted, several Twitter users are seen tweeting identical statements, sometimes with identical typographical errors!

The BJP supporters today tweeted the following:

1. Towards a black money free India: Income Declaration Scheme bags Rs 67,382 Cr unaccounted money. #IndiaDefeatsBlackMoney

2. Google Trends seen a 160% increase in search queries for debit card, 140% for UPI & 90% for mobile banking. #IndiaDefeatsBlackMoney

3. PM Modi’s demonetisation move was the most significant moment on Twitter in 2016 with 6,50,000 tweets in 24 hours #IndiaDefeatsBlackMoney

4. Note bandi has hit the flesh trade as red light areas see sharp decline in customer flow post demonetization. #IndiaDefeatsB lackMoney

1. Demonetisation has badly affected the hawala rackets of transferring money without any actual money movement. #IndiaDefeatsBlackMoney

1. Demonetisation has come as a shocker for hawala and smuggling transactions, largely responsible for terror financing. #IndiaDefeatsBlackMoney

2. Demonetization has wiped out the Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICN) network, estimated to be worth Rs 400 crore. #IndiaDefeatsBlackMoney

3. Note ban has hit hard the circulation of FICN, the prime vehicle for terror funding in India. #IndiaDefeatsBlackMoney

4. Demonetisation nuked Pakistan’s ‘RBI’, cripples ISI’s fake note network. #IndiaDefeatsBlackMoney

5. Tough time for terror outfits who take the blackmoney route to fund their training, pay sleeper cell & arms procurement. #IndiaDefeatsBlackMoney

6. Demonetisation will pave the way for a decline in lending rates, which will expedite the economic activity of the country. #IndiaDefeatsBlackMoney

7. Tax and interest rates on loans are expected to come down because of higher income tax collections. #IndiaDefeatsBlackMoney

8. Banks are now flushed with funds will give out loans at lower interest rates to small and medium industries. #IndiaDefeatsBlackMoney

9. The ban on currency notes has enhanced the demand for Govt bond in the market that eventually leads to higher SLR demand. #IndiaDefeatsBlackMoney

10. Demonetisation led to highest ever surrender of Maoists and their sympathisers ie. 564 in a month. #IndiaDefeatsBlackMoney

11. Demonetisation is the latest in a series of policies by Modi Govt that aim to modernise the country at breakneck speed. #IndiaDefeatsBlackMoney

12. India is taking several historic steps which boost confidence of foreign companies to invest in India. #IndiaDefeatsBlackMoney

13. The overall debit and credit card transactions recorded an increase of 70.5% in 1st week of demonetisation. #IndiaDefeatsBlackMoney

14. Towards cashless society! RuPay card usage jumps 118% in 1st week of demonetization. #IndiaDefeatsBlackMoney

15. Crop planting increased 20-35% every week after demonetisation and remained higher than last year. #IndiaDefeatsBlackMoney

16. Hiring activity up 10% in Nov in India as per TimesJobs RecruiteX Survey, primarily led by the travel & hospitality sector. #IndiaDefeatsBlackMoney

17. Some families of bridegrooms have withdrawn or reduced their dowry demands. Weddings have also become less lavish. #IndiaDefeatsBlackMoney

18. The Indian staffing industry is set to grow up to 12% in 2016 and up to 10% in 2017 post demonestisation. #IndiaDefeats BlackMoney

19. Demonetisation drive is likely a big success in garnering tax revenue. It is PM Modi’s great leap forward. #IndiaDefeatsBlackMoney

20. Go make money! Following the demonetization drive $100 billion household savings will come into stocks in 2017. #IndiaDefeatsBlackMoney

21. India takes digital leap. Now, Dabbawalas embrace technology and offer click-based services. #IndiaDefeatsBlackMo ney

22. Post Demonetisation act housing prices in 42 major cities to drop up to 30%, wiping out Rs 8 lakh crore in value. #IndiaDefeatsBlackMoney

23. Cheaper bank loans soon: Govt flexible to provide relief to the poor as demonetisation is enforced. #IndiaDefeatsBlackMoney

24. Note ban helped people to embrace the cashless transactions and maximise the usage of ATM cum debit cards. #IndiaDefeatsBlackMoney

25. This has come as a welcome surprise as crimes with a financial motive have dipped sharply in Delhi by 50%. #IndiaDefeatsBlackMoney

26. Jobs started pouring in esp by mobile wallet and fintech companies after demonetization. #IndiaDefeatsBlackMoney

27. Demonetisation leads to Cashless society that will further increase credit access and financial inclusion. #IndiaDefeatsBlackMoney

28. The banking system is improving as it will slowly head towards a cashless society. #IndiaDefeatsBlackMoney

29. Banking System gets a boost, as more than Rs 7-8 lakh crore base money (new legal money) enters the system. #IndiaDefeatsBlackMoney

30. Demonetisation will reduce the risk and cost of cash handling as soft money is safer than hard money. #IndiaDefeatsBlackMoney

31. Demonetisation has set the ball rolling for digital economy & created the fintech moment for India. #IndiaDefeatsBlackMoney