BJP IT cell ‘gone rogue’, sack Amit Malviya: Subramanian Swamy

Vibha Sharma
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, September 7

Known for his maverick ways and plain-speak, senior BJP leader Subramanian Swamy has struck and at his target this time is the party’s IT cell and its high-profile in-charge Amit Malviya.

Accusing the BJP IT cell of having “gone rogue”, Swamy said: “Some of its members are putting out fake ID tweets to make personal attacks on me.

“If my angered followers make counter personal attacks I cannot be held responsible just as BJP cannot be held responsible for the rogue IT cell of the party.”

When one of the followers said:  “You are above criticism, ignore them, if you give them importance then you are wasting your important time”, Swamy replied that he is ignoring, but the BJP “must sack one Malviya character who is running riot with filth”.

“I am ignoring but BJP must sack them. One Malaviya character is running riot with filth. We are a party of maryada purushottam not of Ravan or Dushasan,” he wrote, accusing Malviya of running the campaign using fake tweets.

Swamy, however, did not specify the exact contours of the campaign.

The BJP IT cell is also under pressure over the “dislike campaign” against Prime Minister Narendra Modi, though party leaders blame the Congress and say only two per cent of the “dislikes” on PM’s videos on its channel are from India.

“The international dislike campaign is being run by Congress which is using many Turkey-based handles and recently-created bots to tweet against the exams issue. They don’t have any real followers nor do they follow many real people,” party leaders say.