In an investigative report on Monday, 23 October, NDTV claimed that there has been a noticeable trend to indicate that the ruling government has been ‘employing’ what are popularly known as ‘trolls’ to clean up their online image – and do damage control on social media on their behalf.

NDTV journalists Sreenivasan Jain and Manas Pratap Singh, in their report, cited recent examples of the above phenomenon such as the Twitter hashtag #HaryanaWithKhattar.