Did Congress, BJP and JD(U) Hired Services of Cambridge Analytica?

But Congress believes that BJP is propagating fake news and instead faulted the BJP for hiring the company’s services during the 2014 elections.

“The way social media campaign (of Congress party) went on in Gujarat, all of us were campaigning there”. He said India has stringent powers under the Information Technology Act to summon Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg. Rahul said the Modi government was “caught lying” on the Indians’ death and so it wanted “media networks bite bait; (so that) 39 Indians vanish from radar…and problem solved”.

Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad also rejected the Congress’ claim that it had never used the services of Cambridge Analytica, and insisted that the opposition party and Gandhi did do it.

Charges were levelled against the three parties after a new investigation conducted by Britain’s Channel 4 found Cambridge Analytica swindling the electoral sentiment in India, apart from the US, Nigeria, Kenya, Argentina and the Czech Republic.

To a question on the the Centre’s “warning” to Facebook on data leak, the Congress leader said Modi met the company’s founder Mark Zuckerberg in the U.S. and is said to be his friend. He said the Congress has never used the services of Cambridge Analytica.

He claimed before the press outside the Parliament that Congress is having a link with Cambridge Analytica and Facebook is associated with them.

Commenting on Cambridge Analytica row, Congress leader Randeep Surjewala termed Bharatiya Janata Party as a.

“Can you @rsprasad please tell us why your Govt lied to us about the 39 Indians who died in Iraq?” “Cambridge Analytica is a powerful tool and when used correctly can provide deep insight and fine tune communication and outreach strategy”, the tweet reads.

Prasad also called Congress of being a party without ethics, saying they used illegal means to gain an upper hand in the state Assembly election. “Will the Congress Party now depend upon data manipulation and data theft to win elections?” he asked.

Citing an article, Surjewala said: “Amrish Tyagi (K.C Tyagi’s son), who runs the OBI, had worked in the US President’s war-room, and now says in an article that CA is his partner and friend”.

The law and IT minister wanted to know how many times did Gandhi meet Cambridge Analytica’s now sacked CEO Alexander Nix. “CEO of Ovleno, was in touch with me in 2011-2012 & was approaching me to get some kind of work done through Congress”, said Poonawalla. “We are not denying our association with SCL/Cambridge analytica but we are a ground research company closely working with various media houses and not undertake any project with CA related to social media (specially Facebook)”, Himanshu Sharma, Vice President OBI, said in a statement Thursday.