Srikumar, who hails from a rural district in Telangana, observes that more than the presence of right wing Facebook pages, the effective usage of WhatsApp groups is becoming a huge influence on the rural population. “Unfortunately these posts and hate memes are now propagated even in rural areas,” says Srikumar. There are many such Facebook pages which constantly dog-whistle against Muslims. The post above reads: Say no to Halal Jhatka is our right They had attacked Hinuds in Goa, Mizoram, Tripura and Nagaland in the 15th century The post above reads: Christians are not peace ambassadors, because there is no other way they are preaching peace. The above post reads: During Hindu festivals, please buy Pooja items only from Hindus The post above reads: Before the arrival of Christians and after their arrival While Israel and several countries have laws punishing people who deny the Holocaust or show any sympathy to Nazis, in India such a horrible genocide is not mentioned in History books or school books, and instead we rever Jihadis like Akbar, Tippu Sultan and Aurangzeb. The post above reads: Nazis killed six million jews, and Islamic invaders killed 400 million Hindus. The Christian community is also not immune to their hate campaign.
These pages typically celebrate state harassment of Muslims, promote hate films like Kashmir Files, and attack Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao when he speaks out against the vicious hateful atmosphere created by the BJP.
While Troll Hypocrites has 40,000 followers, Controversy Kurradu has close to 3,000 followers. TNM went through Troll Hypocrites, Controversy Kurradu, Dharmadwajam-Hindu Chaitanya Vedika, which are some of the popular right wing Facebook pages in Telugu. These accounts alleged that the TRS government was resorting to appeasement politics by giving in to the demands of the AIMIM against installing a ‘Hindu’ king’s statue. The following day too, right wing pages like Dharmadwajam-Hindu Chaitanya Vedika and Controversy Kurradu fanned hatred against Muslims on social media. The post also stated that Muslims had claimed they would agree to the demand only if Tipu Sultan’s statue was also erected. However, sharing the same photos, a person identified as Dharmadwajam Prasad, stoked controversy by claiming that Muslims had stopped the installation of Shivaji statue. The page did not give any description except portraying Hindutva supporters as victims of police action. While on ground the situation was tense, a popular right wing Facebook page, which has over 50,000 followers – Dharmadwajam-Hindu Chaitanya Vedika – shared photos of police dispersing the crowd using non-lethal federal riot guns, and Hindutva supporters wearing saffron shawls being injured.
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Stone pelting ensued and the district administration had to impose Section 144 of Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) to contain the violence which turned communal in character. TRS and AIMIM supporters objected to the BJP demand.
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A clash broke out when BJP activists forcefully attempted to install the statue which did not have the requisite permission from authorities. On March 20, tensions prevailed in Bodhan of Nizamabad district over the installation of a Chatrapati Shivaji statue. The power and influence of some of these pages which cultivate hatred against minority communities and dub the TRS-government as ‘Hinduphobic’, was witnessed in March this year. And now that I realise that all they do is manufacture hate using ridiculous arguments, I have the urge to counter them.” But the murder was justified by casteists openly and it shattered my beliefs. “The right-wing used to say that there shouldn’t be caste discrimination and that we all belong to one identity: Hindus. But the murder of Pranay in 2018, a Dalit man hacked to death in broad daylight for marrying a woman from the upper caste Vysya community, made him rethink his affiliation. Srikumar was introduced to the RSS by his karate master. Srikumar, who was formerly associated with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) - a Hindu nationalistic organisation - however says it’s getting more and more difficult to match the propaganda level of the right-wing troll pages in Telangana, and soon the situation in the state might begin to reflect Karnataka, which is witnessing communal violence on a regular basis. The tech-savvy 23-year-old is the former editor and administrator of Planet Sarcasm - a Telugu troll page that counters right wing propaganda. N Srikumar gets riled up whenever he sees bigoted posts by right-wing Facebook pages, prompting him to immediately respond to them in the language that both agitates them and evokes laughter.
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