The Congress, which is putting all its efforts on social media, has to understand that power is decided in the election field.

It is the job of the opposition to oppose the government, but this opposition should be done only within the democratic limits. Let’s talk about the country’s main opposition and India’s oldest political party Congress. If we look at the history of the Congress party which has given the maximum number of Prime Ministers to India, we will find that whenever the post of Prime Minister was with the Gandhi family, the people of Congress continued to respect the person sitting on this post, but if a person outside the Gandhi family held the post. If he remained, disrespect was shown towards him. Narasimha Rao was the Congress Prime Minister but most of the ministers in his cabinet were loyal to ’10 Janpath’. Not only this, Dr. Manmohan Singh was given the post of Prime Minister by pretending to be abdicate, but whether he was free to take decisions, this question remained throughout his tenure. The revelations made by his media advisor Sanjay Baru in his book show that the government was running from 10 Janpath only. Not only this, when Manmohan Singh was on an official foreign trip as Prime Minister, Rahul Gandhi publicly tore the ordinance of his government. Time has changed…. If the power was snatched from the hands of the Congress and the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance government was formed, then how could it be accepted by the Congress.

Attempts to attack Narendra Modi’s image by the Congress which mocked Narendra Modi by calling him a chai wala, which started from day one, are continuing till today. The only difference is that earlier Congress leaders used to make fun of or attack Narendra Modi through their statements, but seeing the damage caused, they changed their strategy and resorted to social media. You look at the official social media handles of the Congress party, continuous things are being said against the Prime Minister through cartoons or in other ways. Perhaps the social media department of the Congress and its head are trying to attract the attention of Rahul Gandhi and Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge so that social media operators can be targeted after the Congress general session to be held in Chhattisgarh this month. Everyone should also get maximum benefit. If you look at the social media platforms of the Congress, you will see only a few photos of Mallikarjun Kharge, Rahul Gandhi or the Chief Ministers of the Congress state governments. Why Modi’s photo is featured in every channel and every newspaper, raising the question why only Modi’s pictures are seen on the social media forums of Congress.

Not only this, the Congress has also raised a huge army on social media platforms, which is engaged in creating an atmosphere against the Modi government. Every hour the soldiers of the Congress army are posting negative things against the government on social media or questioning any decision of the government. It is asked that on what scale would you give how many marks to the Modi government? It is asked why there should not be a Dalit or a Muslim on the post of Prime Minister? Spreading this confusion, they ask what will you do in the elections with the Modi government destroying jobs? These people find and post edited clips of old videos to confuse people and oppose the government. Apart from this, the Twitter handles of many senior and young leaders of the Congress seem to be run by the IT and digital cell of the Congress, because the way similar attacks are made on the government at the same time, it shows that the Congress can strengthen its social network by creating a toolkit. Media is driving the strategy.

However, one thing is clear from all these tweets that Congress has kept good graphic designers, good video editors etc. in large numbers, but Congress should know that only after seeing good cartoons, photos or videos People don’t vote. The public has now become aware, they have started voting after seeing the policy, intention and report card of the leader. Congress has to understand that social media can prove to be helpful for anyone to form an opinion on any issue among the public to an extent, but it is wrong to dream of bringing revolution only through social media. Congress also has to understand that it has to fight the real battle in the election field and not on social media. At present, the election process is going on in three states – Tripura, Nagaland and Meghalaya and till now big leaders of Congress have not been seen in these states.

-Neeraj Kumar Dubey