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New Delhi: Indian National Congress led by its former chief Rahul Gandhi on Sunday organized a Twitter campaign with hashtag #SpeakUpForDemocracy for calling out of the BJP for destroying the country’s democracy using various means.

The campaign soon fetched enough tweets to become the top trending topic on Twitter India. It soon appeared in the top five trending topics worldwide on the micro-blogging site. By 4:30 pm the campaign had grossed over 3 lakh tweets and was placed fourth in the worldwide trending topics.

Several top national leaders of the party including Rahul Gandhi, Shashi Tharoor, and others took part in the campaign and slammed BJP for trying to systematically destroy the democracy in the country. The users during the campaign also added that the saffron party was using government agencies and “muscle power” to gain power in various states and was toppling elected governments.

The dig was focused more on the recent Rajasthan political crisis where the party alleges the BJP tried to topple the elected government to gain power using money.

Several users also called on media outlets for glorifying horse-trading by terming it as “master-stroke”.

The official twitter handle of Congress posted short videos of several of its leaders asserting how the BJP was involved in destroying the world’s largest democracy.

Here are some of the tweets from the campaign:

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Baramati, Nov 23: Maharashtra deputy Chief Minister and NCP president Ajit Pawar on Saturday won from his traditional Baramati assembly constituency by defeating his nephew and NCP (SP) candidate Yugendra Pawar by more than one lakh votes.

Ajit, who parted ways with his uncle Sharad Pawar last year and was seeking an eighth term from this family bastion in Pune district, polled 1,81,132 votes while Yugendra Pawar polled 80,233 votes.

Ajit, thus, defeated his younger brother's son by 1,00,899 votes.

Five months ago, Sharad Pawar-led NCP (SP) had triumphed in Baramati in the Lok Sabha elections, with incumbent MP and Sharad Pawar's daughter Supriya Sule defeating Ajit Pawar's wife Sunetra by a margin of 1.5 lakh votes.

Both the NCP factions did not leave a single stone unturned during the assembly campaign, and even Sharad Pawar's wife Pratibha Pawar and Sule's daughter Revati were seen campaigning for Yugendra, while Ajit Pawar brought his mother on stage during his concluding rally in Baramati.

While Sharad Pawar told the people of Baramati that they needed a new leadership, alluding to Yugendra Pawar whom he described as a highly-educated candidate, Ajit Pawar cautioned people not to fall prey to the "emotional pitch" by the senior Pawar.

After Saturday's results, Ajit Pawar, who along with several other NCP legislators sided with the BJP-Shiv Sena government in 2023, could claim to be the real political heir of his estranged uncle who founded the NCP in 1999.

Sunetra Pawar, now a Rajya Sabha member, thanked the people of Baramati for reposing their faith once again in `Dada' (elder brother in Marathi, as Ajit is fondly called).

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