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Fake face-offs on Facebook
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Release time：2011-01-30
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Chief minister Arjun Munda greets Arun Jaitley, who is in Ranchi for a party meet, on Saturday. Picture by Prashant Mitra
He’s studied at Indira Gandhi National Open University, lives in Jamshedpur, from Jamshedpur (Tata Nagar), India, has 166 friends and under the activities and interests slot, writes Jharkhand.
For the uninitiated, that’s the Facebook profile of a man called “Arjun Munda”. And to top it all, it is a fake account.
Chief minister Arjun Munda, in the hurly-burly of pre-poll campaign in Kharsawan, said he had not opened any account on Facebook. “I will look into it,” he added.
We believe you, Sir.
Had it been real, he would have had more friends than a paltry 166. Former chief minister and his current arch rival Babulal Marandi has 5,004 Facebook friends. Former BJP MLA Sarayu Roy has 2,515. And golf would have found a tee, er, toehold somewhere in his profile.
But when one is the chief minister of a state facing the twin examinations of 34th National Games and Kharsawan bypoll, even a fake account attracts a fair share of attention.
Gladson Dungdung, an activist writer with around “900 Facebook friends”, who posted a message on “Munda’s” wall — Facebookspeak for a virtual scrapbook where mutual friends message each other, paste links to websites and send virtual “pokes” and “gifts” — said he didn’t know that the Facebook account was not an authorised one.
Dungdung’s post: “Opposition parties have joined hands together against Jharkhand CM Arjun Munda to defeat him in Kharsawan bypoll. I’m waiting to see him losing the election. However, if it happens, will we be going for the president rule 4th time (sic) ? The game between “Tom and Jerry” will continue in Jharkhand perhaps for another decade?”
Sunil Kumar Tiwari, close to Babulal Marandi, wrote: “Ab to Suraj Singh Besra bhi Arjun Munda jee se purana hisab chukane ke garaj se bipakchi ekta ke samarthan me maidan khali kar rahe hain...ab to one-to-one ka mukabla dekhne layak hoga. (Now even Suraj Singh Besra is settling old scores with Arjun Munda and leaving the field for a one-on-one battle.)”
Tiwari, however, said it was a reaction to the comment of Delhi-based journalist Alok Kumar: “Arjun chakrabyuh me phansey (Arjun is trapped in the chakrabyuh, a direct reference to the impregnable multi-tier arrangement of soldiers in the Mahabharata, which killed young warrior Abhimanyu).”
Munda remained unperturbed when told all this. “All frustrated politicians have ganged up against me. But it will not make any difference,” he said.
Munda’s deputy Sudesh Mahto also shares the same fate. He is on Facebook too, but had “not opened any account on the social networking site”. Information about him was downloaded from Wikipedia.
It is Marandi, a former BJP man, who seems to be enjoying his virtual persona to the hilt. He “lives his Ranchi, Jharkhand, is married and from Giridih, and was born on January 11”. Like many, he has not put down his birth year.
On December 3, he launched a scathing attack in Facebook on BJP chief Nitin Gadkari for spending crores on his son’s wedding.
“At one hand (sic) 27 per cent of the citizens of the country are not able to make their two ends meet, crores of rupees were spent on a wedding ceremony of the son of country’s second largest party, BJP national president (sic). Shouldn’t the important persons of the nation avoid such extravagant ceremonies? If the prominent people of the country set such examples, how will they eradicate corruption?”
“Facebook has proved to be very useful for being in touch with people whom we cannot meet directly,” said Marandi, who has put his political might at stake in Kharsawan.
“Recently, our MLAs had called for action against Dhanbad SP Suman Gupta in a custodial death case. When some of my friends posted messages that Gupta was doing a good job against the coal mafia, I prevailed upon my MLAs not to make such a demand. Everyone should use this technology,” he said.
A “poke” at the chief minister, perhaps?Source from The Telegraph
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