Political fanatics target Tom Moody on Facebook

In a much-needed development, the US credit rating agency Moody’s Investors Service on Friday upgraded India’s sovereign rating. It was improved to Baa2 from its lowest investment grade of Baa3 after 14 long years, providing a major boost to the economy and to investor sentiments. The Moody’s rating, however, has become a platform for controversy. While the BJP government has been praising it, opposition parties have mostly criticised it.

Online users sympathetic to the Left in Kerala turned out to be laughing stocks after they mistook former Australian cricketer Tom Moody for the international credit rating agency Moody’s Investors Service. Trolls by CPM’s self-proclaimed ‘cyber army’ started flooding the former Australian cricketer’s Facebook profile in a case of mistaken identity.

The hardcore activists were hell-bent on promoting the party ideology and started showering criticism against the cricketer on his Facebook wall. The comrades, most of them in their prime youth blatantly told  Moody that he should be ashamed of himself for giving an improved rating to the Indian economy under the Modi government.

Some of them even dared Moody to visit Kerala. There were some other comments too which tried to expose the communists, but such seemingly mild criticism failed to deter the comrades from understanding their blunder attack against the head coach of the Sunrisers Hyderabad.

CPI leader believes India still struggling in issues like women rights and gender equality

However, soon after the news about the mistaken identity broke out, many of the comments disappeared. In its defence, CPI(M) supporters said that fake accounts were responsible for the trolling incidents and it had nothing to do with the party. The comments section on Moody Facebook profile has now turned into a war zone of sorts, especially between BJP, Congress, and CPI(M) supporters

The leader of the Communist Party of India, Sitaram Yechury, however, claimed that the country has steadily headed towards privatization in all sectors in the last three years to give benefit to the foreign capitalist groups, and is struggling with its ratings in issues like women rights and gender equality.