Brut India spoke to Dhruv Rathee. The 23-year-old has amassed more than half a million subscribers on YouTube doing political videos, many criticising the Narendra Modi-led administration.
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00:00Namaskar friends, today I will expose the social media IT cell of the BJP
00:05on how they spread their propaganda with fake news.
00:30Then came 2014 when Narendra Modi became the Prime Minister of India.
00:34Everyone thought, including me, that he would provide some alternative to the corruption which was already going on.
00:40But he ended up becoming even worse than the people who came before him.
00:49When I made the first video, which was political, it was out of frustration, you know.
00:55It was frustration to see the Indian media being sold out to the government.
01:00No one telling the truth, everyone spreading fake news and their propaganda.
01:24On 22nd March 2017, corruption has become legal in India.
01:35It is also known as lobbying.
01:37It has become legal since the Finance Bill was passed in the Lok Sabha on 22nd March 2017.
01:43And all the mainstream media is silent on this.
01:54Currently, my only plan is to make this my full time career on YouTube.
02:01While studying what I want to study.
02:10BJP IT cell is a fake news factory which spreads such lies among people
02:15due to which hatred can spread between Hindus, Muslims and Christians.
02:24And this police complaint is so fake that even you will start laughing when you hear about it.
02:36They tried to bury my voice.
02:38But I made two more videos on that.
02:40Both of those videos got into YouTube trending and now a lot more people know about that.
02:45I want to focus on social reform in people.
02:49You know, change their mind, open up their mind about different viewpoints, opinions.
02:55Make them critically think what they're doing in life and always make them think for themselves.
03:00Because a big problem of many issues in India is that people are blindly believing
03:07their elders, their politicians, their celebrities.
03:10I want to stop this worship culture.