Your Anger Has a Price Tag. Who Signed the Cheque?
A message lands at midnight. Polite. Professional. A number at the bottom. ₹40,000. One post. One target. Make strangers furious by morning. This week Indian X filled with screenshots like that. Creators said agencies with sweet, harmless names offered anywhere from ₹10,000 to ₹45 lakh for content attacking Rahul Gandhi. Some refused in public. Some turned it into satire. Party spokespeople shouted "lies" across the aisle. Nobody has proven who paid whom. Hold that thought. It matters. Now look at what nobody denies. Political parties in India hire influencers. Reports on X put the going rate at ₹15,000 to ₹50,000 a post. Not one party. All of them. The ruling side buys applause. The opposition buys outrage. Both buy you. And the other camp is no saint. The same week, an influencer with 115,000 followers asked fans for names, photos and family details of right-wing creators, promising to "handle them one by one." That is not accountability. That is a hit list wit...
