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		mavelikara on Feb 14, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: BBC offices in India raided by tax officials amid ... > The BJP is media savvy, but using the Indian bureaucracy and especially the Tax department to score points is clumsy. Clumsy? This is Amit Shah's standard playbook. Remember how many prominent Congress leaders were arrested for tax evasion.

adharmad on Feb 14, 2023 [–]

Amit Shah using the Tax department or the Enforcement Directorate as tools is clumsy because it makes it obvious that it is a hatchet job.

BJP's social media attacks on Rahul Gandhi and the Congress are effective because they seem to be more organic.

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