BJP’s Amit Malviya Leaks Karnataka Polls Date Before EC
The election commission is seeing red over the leak of the Karnataka election dates before its official announcement. The goof-up was done by none other than the BJP IT cell's Chief Amit Malviya who tweeted about it even before the EC could announce it.
Even though he deleted the tweet, it drew widespread criticism from all quarters and also from the chief election commissioner OP Rawat. The poll panel is expected to probe into the matter of an early leak before the election schedule was announced.
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“Certain things may have leaked for which the election commission will take strictest possible action,” Rawat said to media queries on how did the poll dates get out.
Check out the social media furore on Malviya tweet....
The sanctity of #KarnatakaElections2018 as well as the authority of the Election Commission are both undermined today with a BJP functionary & a couple of channels announcing poll dates before the EC did. Whats going on? — barkha dutt (@BDUTT) March 27, 2018 BJP’s @malviyamit tweets Karnataka election dates before poll panel, EC to take ‘strict action’ against leak https://t.co/DuJIjN5cVp#KarnatakaElections2018 pic.twitter.com/ox19NqHKsX — Hindustan Times (@htTweets) March 27, 2018 BJP IT cell head Amit Malviya tweeted the dates of #KarnatakaElections2018 even before the Election Commission made the announcement.https://t.co/q6v0sbVJKJ — India Today (@IndiaToday) March 27, 2018 Shocking that @BJP4India had prior knowledge of #KarnatakaElections2018. This is unprecedented & seriously undermines voters’ trust in the EC of India’s impartiality. It also begs the question: does BJP have prior knowledge of the result? @milinddeora tweets #BattleForKarnataka pic.twitter.com/rLiviylD3W — News18 (@CNNnews18) March 27, 2018
Interestingly,Congress's social media in-charge of KarnatakaSrivatsa too tweeted around the same time as Malviya as seen in this deleted tweet, but nobody paid heed!
