BJP's IT cell head Amit Malviya tweets Karnataka poll dates before EC announcement, faces flak

BJP’s national Information and Technology cell head Amit Malviya landed the saffron party in a controversy on Tuesday when he tweeted about the dates of the Karnataka Assembly election before the Election Commission announced it through a press conference. Even though Malviya seems to have deleted the tweet now, journalists questioned Malviya on how he got to know about the Karnataka poll dates before the Election Commission announced them. [caption id=“attachment_4407355” align=“alignnone” width=“675”] Image courtesy: @rachitseth/Twitter[/caption] Malviya has now deleted the original tweet in which he had posted the dates.

When Chief Election Commissioner OP Rawat was questioned on this issue, ANI quoted him as saying,“It will be investigated. Be assured that actions legally and administratively befitting will be taken.”

Certain things may have leaked for which Election Commission will take appropriate action: Chief Election Commissioner OP Rawat on the question how BJP's IT Cell head Amit Malviya had put dates of Karnataka elections on social media pic.twitter.com/pRHTMBvOfN

— ANI (@ANI) March 27, 2018

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