Daijiworld Media Network – Bengaluru (DC)
Bengaluru, Apr 18: Actress-turned-politician and Congress social media cell in-charge Divya Spandana aka Ramya on Tuesday April 17 hit out at Prime Minister Modi for allegedly falsely claiming that former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had ties with Pakistan.
The former MP from Mandya while sharing an article on Twitter said that the BJP does not need social media to spread fake news when it has PM Modi to do it. "Why do they need social media platforms to spread fake news when they have the PM to do it, right?", she tweeted.
In an interview with DNA, the Congress leader said that the Prime Minister had made baseless allegations against the former PM. "Fake news is a problem but people in-charge of big social media platforms are themselves politically aligned which makes it difficult to contain rough edges of social media," she said while talking about fake news.
Since the Congress leader has been assigned the job of handling the social media, the Congress has been giving a tough fight to the opposition allegations through counter attacks. Both the BJP and the Congress have been involved in war of words ahead of assembly polls due on May 12.
The ruling Congress led by Siddaramaiah is eyeing a second term and the BJP led by Yeddyurappa is trying to wrest power in Karnataka.