The Congress has launched a social media campaign to invite people from across the country to join the fight to save democracy, arguing that an effective counter to lies and the politics of hate was the only way to save India.

While the Congress declared an ambitious plan on Monday to create a network of around five lakh “social media warriors”, senior leaders on Tuesday linked the project with India’s future, insisting that the threat to democracy was built on an edifice of lies that needs to be demolished.

Hundreds of videos were posted on different social media platforms, laying emphasis on the moral responsibility of every citizen to save India’s soul that lies in its pluralist character and an inclusive society.

The Congress intends to create a network of volunteers to bolster its social media presence by taking help from civil society as its modest team of 50,000 office-bearers cannot take on the gigantic social media machine built by the RSS-BJP.

The Congress does not have the resources to hire a paid team, and is relying on the people’s commitment to the idea of India that evolved during the freedom struggle.

The party has invited people of all political persuasions who believe India’s future is safe in the constitutional principles of secularism, equality of caste and religion and individual freedom.