An official said the Raipur city police issued a notice to BJP leader and former Chhattisgarh chief minister Raman Singh on Friday, requesting that he remain present at his residence on May 24 for recording his comment in the ‘Covid toolkit’ event. He added that the note was submitted by the Civil Lines Station House Officer.
The police wanted to know whether Singh owned the Twitter account @drramansingh, from which he obtained documents titled AICC Research Project or Cornering Narendra Modi and the BJP on COVID management, as well as contact between other defendants about the use of the hashtag ‘CongressToolkitExposed’ on social media, according to the official.
In the toolkit row, a FIR was filed on May 19 at the Civil Lines station accusing Raman Singh, the BJP’s national spokesperson Sambit Patra, and others of spreading false news and “promoting enmity between groups.”
On the complaint of Akash Sharma, president of the National Students’ Union of India’s (NSUI) Chhattisgarh branch, the case was filed.
Sharma said that BJP leaders distributed false material on a bogus Congress letterhead, saying it was a “toolkit” created by the party on how to blame the Modi administration for its handling of the pandemic.
The BJP had previously chastised the Congress for supposedly attempting to smear the country and Prime Minister Narendra Modi by dubbing the latest coronavirus strain the ‘Modi strain’ or ‘India strain.’ Congress refuted the charge, claiming that the BJP was disseminating a bogus toolkit in order to discredit it.
