PTI, NEW DELHI: Amid the raging controversy over data privacy, Union Minister Smriti Irani today launched a scathing attack on Rahul Gandhi and the Congress, alleging that he had increased his popularity by using bots from Uzbekistan and Russia while his party was using technology to divide the country on caste lines.
The Information and Broadcasting Minister, who spoke at length on the debate around data theft, users’ privacy and the controversy surrounding Cambridge Analytica, said it was time India had a policy for digital broadcasting and news, and that she would make some announcement in this regard “very soon”.
Replying to queries on Rahul Gandhi, Irani claimed that his own constituents don’t want to give him a chance, and for the first time in the past three years all the local body elections and assembly seats have been lost by the Congress in his constituency.
“That means that the people, he has been so called serving for over a decade, know that this is a gentlemen who does not deliver on promises of governance, on promises of progress, on promises of prosperity.
“So when his own people have certified that he is not acceptable to us as a leader, how do you presume that I have a chip on my shoulder,” Irani said.
