The BJP's new IT cell team has unleashed a carpet bombing of new memes and reels, and it's terrifying. It's terrifying because it's filled with nothing but violence. The clips from films and web series that the IT cell has used include large scale gunfights as well as brutal beatings by criminals. One reel features a firing scene with trucks, trains, and guns. The word "brainwashed Naxal" is written on the villain's body, and several BJP-ruled states are participating in the firing against him. One scene is from a hit web series. In it, a criminal character is continously slapping a child in class, here too, the student is being labeled a brainwashed Naxal. It's clear that the BJP is branding all activists and opponents as Naxals and advocating for dealing with them through violence. The world's largest party is crafting a narrative to run the world's largest democracy through sticks and bullets.
VINAY DWIVEDI, Benaulim
