Hell hath no fury...Cong techie shuts down DPCC website after being denied ticket

It is not a good time for the Congress. Not only have they angered voters (given the reponse in the past few elections), but also the person who used to run the Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee website. And NO, you don’t scorn the techie who runs your website. Because hell hath no fury like a techie scorned. Puri, was denied a ticket by the Congress party and reacted with the ultimate form of tech revenge - by taking down the Congress website! When you now go to the site — http://www.dpcc.co.in/ — it shows you a message, “This site with doman name DPCC.CO.IN was designed, developed and maintained by Shri Sanjay Puri since 2008 (Member Congress Campaign Committee, DPCC, 2015). He withdraws the services after the resignation from his primary membership of Indian National Congress on 19th January, 2015.” [caption id=“attachment_2057555” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] The message on the DPCC website.[/caption] The abrupt taking down of the website comes as a huge embarrassment for the Congress at a time when it is losing leaders to the BJP (read Krishna Tirath). Even the most loyal leaders have now chosen other things over the party. (Read this earlier Firstpost article on Kapil Sibal.) An irate Sanjay Puri, who joined the party 30 years ago, told Indian Express, “I started these websites, I have been running them on my own for years now, so why should I let a party that betrayed me keep them when I have quit.” And of course, people on Twitter went to town poking fun at the party. Here’s what they said:

While the site still showed the message from Puri, Indian Express reported sources in the party as saying that Puri had met AICC president Sonia Gandhi Tuesday who patiently heard him out and all differences with him were solved.