Senior Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday skilled weapons on the BJP over its latest commercial that claimed Prime Minister Narendra Modi “stopped a conflict” and evacuated stranded Indian nationals.
The BJP lately launched an commercial by which a girl, taking part in the function of a scholar stranded out of the country, meets her mother and father exterior an airport and says, “Maine kaha tha na, kaisi bhi state of affairs ho, Modi ji humein ghar le aayenge. Struggle rukwa di papa aur phir humari bus nikaali papa. (I had instructed you, regardless of the state of affairs, Modi ji will deliver us residence. [He] stopped the conflict, papa, after which rescued our bus).”
The commercial was shared on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s official YouTube channel. The outline of the YouTube video says, “Below the management of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, all Indians throughout the globe are protected and safe as they’re ‘Modi ka Parivar’. Monitor report of bringing all Indians again safely from conflict zones and disaster-hit areas an affidavit to this.”
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Whereas the commercial by no means referred to any specific incident, social media customers had been fast to search out similarities between the BJP’s declare that Modi briefly stopped the Russia-Ukraine conflict to supply protected passage to stranded Indian college students.
Rahul Gandhi posted a video of a girl who, surrounded by AAP supporters protesting towards Arvind Kejriwal’s arrest, mocks the advert and dismisses the declare as propaganda.
Gandhi stated, “Now the reality is popping out after breaking the net of confusion and worry.”
“This time the ‘Papa of Propaganda’ will not achieve success, the general public itself is able to present him the mirror,” he added.
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Days after Russia declared conflict in Ukraine, a number of social media accounts linked to the BJP began hailing the Modi authorities claiming that Russia stopped the conflict for India.
Nevertheless, the ministry of exterior affairs denied the declare at an everyday press briefing. Arindam Bagchi, then MEA spokesperson, stated, “We acquired particular inputs that this can be a route that’s out there… we conveyed that to our residents, and I’m pleased that many might make it.”
“Extrapolating that to say that any person is holding off bombing or that is one thing we had been coordinating is completely inaccurate.”
Regardless of MEA’s denial, BJP nationwide president Jagat Prakash Nadda reiterated the declare throughout an election marketing campaign final yr in Karnataka.
“No different Prime Minister within the historical past of India has been as nice as Modi ji. He stopped the Russia-Ukraine conflict to evacuate 22,500 college students from there again to India,” Nadda stated at a rally in Udupi.