Continuing his attack on the BJP over ‘fake’ news, Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday slammed Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad for “peddling fake news” and ignoring appointment of judges leading to pendency of cases.
While using Judiciary Demonestised hashtag (#JudiciaryDemonestised), Rahul Gandhi said, “Legal system collapsing under Pending Cases: Supreme Court 55,000 +, High Court 37 Lakh +, Lower Courts 2.6 Crore +”.
“Yet, a staggering 400 High Court and 6,000 Lower Court judges not appointed, while Law Minister preoccupied peddling fake news”, Gandhi added.
Legal system collapsing under Pending Cases:
Supreme Court
55,000 +High Court
37 Lakh +Lower Courts
2.6 Crore +Yet, a staggering 400 High Court and 6,000 Lower Court judges not appointed, while Law Minister preoccupied peddling fake news. #JudiciaryDemonetised pic.twitter.com/qSpKcIuPKW
— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) March 24, 2018
On Friday, Rahul Gandhi took a jibe at BJP saying that the ‘real story vanished’ after BJP spun ‘fake news’.
While attaching a NDTV news report, Rahul Gandhi in a tweet said, “BJP lying factory at work: Journalist set to break big story on how Cambridge Analytica (CA) was paid to infiltrate and sabotage the Congress in 2012.”
“BJP rushes Cabinet Minister to lie and spin fake news: Congress worked with CA! Real story vanishes,” Gandhi added.
Earlier, Prasad had alleged that the Congress resorted to data theft and data manipulation to win elections and questioned the role of the Cambridge Analytica in the social media management of Congress and party president Rahul Gandhi’s social media accounts.
In their defence, the Congress called Prasad a “minister of lies”, and asked the BJP that if Cambridge Analytica was involved in stealing data, then why did it take its services and whether it would register an FIR against CA and its Indian arm Ovleno Business Intelligence (OBI).
The party also said that Minister of Information and Broadcasting Smriti Irani followed Cambridge Analtytica on Twitter and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s former IT head, Arvind Gupta — who currently runs government’s biggest portal (mygov.in) —had termed CA a “powerful tool”.
“BJP government has now become a manufacturer of fake news and an epitome of post-truth. The business alliance between BJP-JD(U) and Cambridge Analytica has now been exposed,” Congress spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala had said.
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Cambridge Analytica is under scanner in many countries over allegations of stealing data of Facebook users and alleged use of bribes and sex workers to entrap politicians.
BJP and Congress Party are at loggerheads over Cambridge Analytica’s role in Indian politics and its alleged involvement in the 2014 elections.