Prime Minister Narendra Modi on WhatsApp seeking support and suggestions for building a ‘Viksit Bharat’. Interestingly, several non-Indians from Pakistan, UAE, and even Britain also claimed to receive PM Modi's letter on WhatsApp. These individuals from varying nationalities were surprised to receive a message from ‘Viksit Bharat Sampark’ on their smartphones.
A Dubai-based Pakistani journalist Asma Zain, Fahad Siddiqui, a British resident of Dubai, and several Britons were among the few non-Indians who received the message on their WhatsApp numbers, reported Khaleej Times. Also Read: ₹1 crore electoral bonds make up 96% of donations to political parties — Here's a denomination-wise break down “I received the message at midnight. It left me wondering: what sort of suggestions could Mr.
Modi possibly need from me? And more importantly, should I even be providing them," Khaleej Times quoted Asma Zain. Sharing a similar case of a UAE-based consultant Anthony J Permal, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor called out at the government for the misuse of data in the interest of the ruling party. “Will the @ECISVEEP take note of such a blatant misuse of government machinery and government data to serve the partisan political interests of the ruling party," wrote the parliamentarian on X, formerly Twitter.
Also Read: SC rejects plea to disclose April 2019 electoral bond info by SBI Tharoor also shared screenshots of a UAE national who expressed his concern about a ‘data breach’ after receiving PM Modi's letter on WhatsApp from the ‘Viksit Bharat Sampark’ account. A few individuals from the UK and other countries also admitted to receiving the message on their WhatsApp account. The WhatsApp message by ‘Viksit Bharat Sampark’ with PM
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