After maintaining a studied silence on news of an Income Tax raid at AAP MLA Kartar Singh Tanwar’s residence that reportedly unearthed Rs. 130 crore of ‘unaccounted cash’, the Aam Aadmi Party has hit back and hit back hard at the Modi government by releasing what they claim is a CCTV grab of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his way to dump 130 crores of cash at Tanwar’s residence in order to frame him.
“Is this true? Shocking!” tweeted Arvind Kejriwal along with the picture, before being ordered by his Vipassana instructor to hand over the phone and return to his meditation session.
Kejriwal’s tweet lifted the fog of despair that hung over the Aam Aadmi Party ever since news broke about the IT raid at Tanwar’s residence. Within minutes, Raghav Chadha, Ashish Khetan, The Ashutosh and every other major AAP leader with a Twitter account who had been desperately retweeting random anti-Modi articles and tweets until then, weighed in breathlessly.
“Will Modi government go to any extent to discredit Aam Aadmi Party?” tweeted Raghav Chadha.
“Modi knows he cannot defeat honest Aam Aadmi Party politically. So he is resorting to such dirty tricks,” tweeted Ashish Khetan.
“Why is the Modi deposhitting cash at Kartar Singh Tanware’s home? Is it becaus he is scared of the Kajariwal?” tweeted The Ashutosh.
Unfortunately for AAP, other than a handful of hardcore AAPtards, no one fell for this bullshit. The consensus on social media was that the so called CCTV grab was obviously a photoshopped picture.
Later in the day, someone on Twitter even leaked the identity of the man behind the morphed image. As is their wont, a bunch of Twitter hawks promptly dug into his tweet history and discovered that the perpetrator was a disgruntled BJP photoshopper who had recently switched loyalties to AAP. The Modi government quickly swung into action, and late in the night, sleuths from Delhi police arrested the photoshopper from a suburb in West Delhi and charged him under a bunch of sections of the IPC act.