216. Terrorized CPIM pressurizes Face Book Group Admins to take over or suppress posts against them. P S Remesh Chandran

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Terrorized CPIM pressurizes Face Book Group Admins to take over or suppress posts against them

P. S. Remesh Chandran
 
Editor, Sahyadri Books & Bloom Books, Trivandrum

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There were not a few Indian Political Groups in Face Book which for long had been discussing the various aspects of the Indian political, social and economic life. The attitudes, activities and decisions of the major political parties of India, including the Indian National Congress, Bharatiya Janatha Party, Communist Party of India Marxist and so many North Indian Hindi-based national and regional parties had been dissected and either praised or condemned there for long. These groups allowed perfect freedom of opinion to members and entertained posts having contradictory views, upholding the meaning and purpose of democratic politics and were actually growing up as the Fifth Estate of India where after the Four other Estates of the Executive, Legislature, Judiciary and the Press people directly expressed and permanently recorded their opinions and views and participated in a national debate. Then the BJP under its present leadership, especially after the bifurcation of the twin states of Jammu and Kashmir and the introduction of the Citizenship Amendment bill, began to approach the admins of these groups, most probably with offers of huge amounts of money, to lead these groups to under their umbrella, and shed members who openly opposed their party. They were as anyone can assume willing to pay huge amounts of money to the group administrators or owners to buy out larger groups with large memberships built through years. They knew, even if they started a new group, it would take years to reach such memberships. So it would always be easier and useful to buy out an old group with large membership. Due to this interference or even total take over by the BJP all these groups lost their credibility, popularity and membership. In short, this interference or total take over served no purpose of the BJP. If and when needed, the names of a few such groups could me mentioned here. Had they posted their own posts among the sea of posts, explaining theirs’ or debunking others’ stands, it would still have served their purpose well, instead of being left with a shrunken and discredited group.

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In 2020, the Indian National Congress which had been running a group with a large membership base, highly informative posts and lively discussions going on decided to change their name to something like ‘the followers of such and such young and promising politician in Bihar or somewhere’ who they thought was going to become the chief minister of that state. Actually this young politician was buying out this group to misuse it for organizing his coming election campaigns. Being thus betrayed, ridiculed and sold out wholesale, hordes of members left this group and that politician is now left with the job of running a group with no members, at least no credible members. The digital front of the Indian National Congress also lost credibility in this buy out. People who can write join Face Book Groups to start and participate in National Politics, not to raise hands and applaud in support of some obscure cheap politician.

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During the Sabarimala Women Entry Agitation in 2018-19, the state branch of the Communist Party of India Marxist lost its digital war in Face Book to BJP. They were swept away by the sheer volume of BJP posts opposing women entry to the Sabarimala Temple for one thing, and by the reality that they were fighting against the national stand of their party in matters relating to gender justice and freedom for another. Moreover, their cyber warriors in their defense lines who were maninly consisting of voluntary as well as paid brigades in Face Book, and miserably underqualified and politically totally inexperienced digital staff employed in the Chief Ministers’ Office, Party’s Offices, Government’s fully paid as well as contracted-out Digital War Rooms, and those borrowed, brought and misused from party and government-controlled organizations like C-DIT, knew nothing about fighting digital wars based on sure-footed rich wide knowledge, new information, unheard-of arguments, theoretical and tactical exposure, and a decent language. And the elders and leaders in this party who led this war knew nothing about digital electronics nor had read anything that was coming against them in the social media sites. They were more interested in reading posts praising them which almost all were. The BJP literally bought out or turned supposed Free Thinker Groups and won this war. The state branch of the Communist Party of India Marxist learned the lesson that it is in the social media like Face Book that wars are lost or won. The same maneuver was repeated in the 2019 Parliament Elections and the state branch of the Communist Party of India Marxist was thoroughly defeated not only in the digital war but also in the actual war in the real world. The Indian National Congress who was a silent observer in this digital war took away the real victory in the field.

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In July 2020 the Communist Party of India Marxist-led government, especially its Chief Minister Mr. Pinarayi Vijayan’s office, came under suspicion, and according to opposition parties in the state even under accusation, after the India Customs and the National Investigation Agency of India began investigations on an illegal gold shipment confiscated in the Trivandrum International Airport, sent from the United Arab Emirates to their Attache at their Trivandram Consulates, under the guise of a diplomatic bag. The bag was opened and checked anyway, under authority of course, and 30 kilograms of gold were recovered. One illegal appointee at the Chief Minister’s I.T. Department and her two cahoots were arrested and put under custody and the Chief Minister’s own Principal Secretary-cum-the Principal Secretary of his I. T. Department was held for aiding them all at various levels and servicing them day-night. The Chief Minister’s specially appointed I. T. Fellow-cum-Directors of Special I. T. Services was proved to have been arranging lodgings for the culprit trio. A Civil Police Officer from the Chief Minister-run Home Department was proved to have been irregularly attached to the Foreign Consulate as the Attache’s Personal Security Officer violating the Foreign Ministry’s and the Union Home Ministry’s protocols and was found to have received from the Airport illegal gold shipments camouflaged as diplomatic baggage. One Minister in the Chief Minister’s Cabinet was even found to have been directly dealing with and involving himself in money matters with the foreign embassy.

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So naturally this created uproar in the social media including Face Book and all the defense lines of the Communist Party of India Marxist and its Chief Minister and his government collapsed. So the party announced that it was moving towards beginning to to build up massive social media support to defend this issue. No sooner their state committee on 20 July 2020 announced this than a few Face Book Political Groups with the largest of memberships (as a fact, exceeding 50000) came under barrage and are now disrupted- a sign before a take-over. The party intends to intensify Face Book Campaigns to save face in the midst of Gold Smuggling Accusations against their ministry and party and their young leaders deputed for this job are pressurizing several Face Book groups to stop running posts accusing them. It has happened several times earlier as we have seen here. It is not new. And every time they did this, they miserably failed. Because the number of credible posts against them was increasing, the number of posts supporting them was failing, or decreasing, or becoming totally ineffective. It does happen during times when this party actually looses face. They are searching for any supportive faces in Face Book which they do not find. The last it happened was during the Sabarimala Women’s Entry Campaign when BJP overwhelmed them in Face Book Groups and scored a mark. But, by the way, I was one who supported this party in that campaign for women’s entry into all temples with full governmental and party support.  

  

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Written and first published on: 22 July 2020

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Communist Party India Marxist, Face Book Political Groups Takeover, Kerala Chief Minister IT, Parliament Election 2019, Sabarimala Women Entry, Trivandrum Airport Gold Smuggling, UAE Tvm Consulate,

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Editor of Sahyadri Books & Bloom Books, Trivandrum. Author of several books in English and in Malayalam. And also author of Swan: The Intelligent Picture Book. Born and brought up in the beautiful village of Nanniyode in the Sahya Mountain Valley in Trivandrum, in Kerala. Father British Council trained English teacher and Mother University educated. Matriculation with distinction and Pre Degree Studies in Science with National Merit Scholarship. Discontinued Diploma studies in Electronics and entered politics. Unmarried and single.

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