Today morning, the Government of India (GOI) responded to the tweet, “What’s wrong with India?” While sharing four pictures highlighting the recent achievements of the country.
These four pictures tell the story of India having eradicated extreme poverty, being the first country to successfully land on the southern region of the moon, receiving accolades from the IMF chief for being the fastest economy in the world, and other nations emulating the strategy and pattern of the digital economy.
A trigger that compelled the Government of India to list down the country’s Foreign social media account trend ‘What’s wrong with India?’ on X to malign India.
The government of India’s response came in light of a burgeoning X trend to counter the malicious online campaign run outside India’s accounts. These accounts showcase India in a negative image by uploading pictures of disregarding lane discipline and traffic rules, breaking rules and queues, public urination, food habits, the presence of homeless beggars on crowded streets, instances of eve teasing, drunk driving, fraud, corruption, drug trafficking, etc. and other issues that plague almost all the country with the variant degree of their socio-economic conditions. These issues are prevalent irrespective of first world country, second world country or third world country.
Starting point of this trend is–
While it is not known who started this on X, according to many social media users, this started by attacking Indian street foods, calling them unhygienic. Later, this grew and spread over other civic and social issues, taking the shape of malign India and Indian
Prompt action taken by Indian netizens and Government of India (GOI) officials
This issue is prompt action taken by Indian netizens and Government of India GOI officials by using the same tag and caption to highlight the achievements made by GOI in recent decades.
Achievements made by India are —
1) India is the fastest-growing economy taking over the United Kingdom and Japan in 2030.
2) India is going to make the road and railway network greater than the USA in the next few years.
3) India has already got the tag of eradicating extreme poverty.
4) India has become the largest two-wheeler manufacturer in the world.
5) The MAKE IN INDIA campaign drastically curtail the import the defense items, pushing India to be self-reliant country.
6) Recognition of Indian films like – winning of Oscar for original song named NATU-NATU and other are high-earning movies like K.G.F., Pathan, etc.