Prashant Kishor’s I-PAC controls social media accounts many TMC leaders

With simply two months left months to the West Bengal meeting elections, the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress is making ready to unleash an intensive social media marketing campaign. To counter the large BJP wave within the state, Mamata Banerjee and her new ally Prashant Kishor is centralising the whole social media marketing campaign within the run-up to the state elections, which goes determine Mamata Banerjee’s political future.
According to a Sunday Guardian report, a lot of the TMC leaders’ social media handles are actually being dealt with by Prashant Kishor’s Indian-Political Action Committee (I-PAC). The senior celebration leaders, together with ministers, MPs and MLAs, have surrendered their social media accounts to IPAC members, who handle their day-to-day social media campaigns.
However, a choose few “big” leaders of All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) have employed their very own private social media workers, not like these of the remainder of the MPs and MLAs whose passwords have been given to the social media workforce of the political consulting group – Indian-Political Action Committee (I-PAC) that’s now working to maintain Mamata Banerjee-led AITC in energy in West Bengal.
Some of the senior leaders who’ve refused to provide IPAC any entry to their social media accounts, together with that of Facebook and Twitter are – Mamata Banerjee’s nephew Abhishek Banerjee, Rajya Sabha MP Derek O’Brien, Minister Firhad Hakim, and celebration Lok Sabha MPs Mahua Moitra, Mimi Chakraborty and Nusrat Jahan.
These ‘celebrity’ leaders are managing their very own social media campaigns and have proven no curiosity to give up their accounts to Prashant Kishor. The IPAC, as an alternative of straight controlling these accounts, now sends tweets and content material for Facebook to those senior leaders, who could or could not share it additional.
Party leaders are unaware of their social media accounts, Twitter ‘verifies’ all of the handles
Former Rajya Sabha MP Dinesh Trivedi, who lately stop TMC, had additionally alleged that his social media handles had been taken over by I-PAC members, who typically put up “abusive tweets”.
The Twitter and Facebook accounts of a number of TMC leaders, together with MPs and MLA, had been created on social media platform solely after the 2019 normal elections, particularly after I-PAC took over the campaigning of Trinamool. The Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress had joined palms with IPAC after a humiliating Lok Sabha elections. And social media accounts for a number of celebration leaders had been straight created by I-PAC, and the leaders themselves weren’t conscious of this. Several Trinamool Congress celebration leaders have revealed that they aren’t even conscious that they’ve Twitter accounts of their names, whereas their accounts often put up content material on social media platforms.
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Interestingly, the Twitter accounts of all of the TMC leaders had been instantly “verified” inside days, primarily based on a listing despatched by the workplace of Abhishek Banerjee to Payal Kamat, who handles “public policy and government” at Twitter. Most importantly, Kamat had labored for Indian-Political Action Committee as their communication supervisor from August 2015 to April 2018.