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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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New Delhi (PTI): In a late-night raid at the Punjab Vigilance office in Mohali followed by a dramatic chase, the CBI arrested two middlemen and another person in a Rs 13-lakh bribery case involving senior officers of the department, officials said.

The CBI took the action after registering an FIR on a complaint of a Punjab State Tax Officer, who had accused Vikas Goyal and his son Raghav Goyal of demanding illegal gratification of Rs 20 Lakh for securing the closure of a complaint against him in the office of DG (Vigilance), Punjab.

"Further, it was alleged that both the accused were acting as intermediaries for senior Vigilance officials including the Reader to DGP Vigilance, Punjab and were using their influence to assure the complainant that his matter could be settled. O. P. Rana, the reader to DG Vigilance assured him for closure of the complaint once illegal gratification is paid," a CBI spokesperson said in a statement.

Prima facie, the investigation reveals active involvement of Rana in the conspiracy, she said.

According to the statement, during negotiations, the accused reduced the demand from Rs 20 lakh to Rs 13 lakh along with one Samsung Galaxy Z Fold7 mobile phone for Rana.

After getting confirmation about the bribe exchange, a CBI team raided a place in Chandigarh, where an associate of the accused, Ankit Wadhwa, was arrested while accepting a bribe of Rs 13 lakh and a mobile phone on their behalf, the spokesperson said.

"The bribe amount and mobile phone were recovered during the trap proceedings," the statement read.

As it happened, Raghav Goyal, Vikas Goyal, and Rana ran away after being alerted by their gunmen stationed there to keep a watch.

The CBI team began a hot pursuit and after a dramatic chase, nabbed Raghav, Vikas and apprehended two gunmen near Ambala at the Punjab-Haryana border, the spokesperson said.

"Rana, reader to DGP Vigilance, is still absconding and efforts are being made to arrest him," she said.

Searches at the residential premises of Goyals at Malout and Rana at Chandigarh, led to recovery of Rs 9 lakh in cash and incriminating documents, the spokesperson said.

The CBI investigation exposed an exchange of "sensitive information" relating to pending vigilance matters between Rana and Goyals.

"The wider conspiracy, including possible illegal gratification nexus and the role of other persons, is under investigation. The accused private persons were given police gunmen officially. The role and attachment of Punjab Police gunmen carrying AK-47 rifles with the private accused persons is also being examined," the spokesperson said.

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