Uddhav govt on backfoot? Top minister says ‘probing BJP IT cell, not Lata Mangeshkar and Sachin Tendulkar’

Image Source : PTI (FILE) Probing BJP IT cell, not Lata Mangeshkar and Sachin Tendulkar: Anil Deshmukh 
The Maha Vikas Aghadi authorities on Monday sought to clear the air over the state’s inquiry into the tweets by Sachin Tendulkar, Lata Mangeshkar and others over farmers protest. Maharashtra Home minister Anil Deshmukh advised reporters that his comment on tweets by celebrities was distorted and that the federal government was ‘probing the BJP IT cell’.

“My earlier assertion relating to the tweets by celebrities was introduced in a distorted method. I by no means meant that the inquiry was going to be of celebrities. Lata Mangeshkar is godlike for us. And each countryman respects Sachin Tendulkar. There isn’t any query of their inquiry,” the NCP chief stated.

“What I had meant was that inquiry will be done into the role of the BJP IT cell,” he added rapidly. Deshmukh claimed that preliminary inquiry has delivered to fore the “names of BJP IT cell head and twelve influencers and additional probe is on within the matter.”

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Both Sachin and Lata Mangeshkar had been amongst different celebrities to rally across the Centre on social media utilizing hashtags #IndiaCollectively and #IndiaAgainstPropaganda following tweets by American pop star Rihanna, local weather activist Greta Thunberg and grownup star Mia Khalifa in assist of the farmers who’re sitting at Delhi border factors since November 26 towards the three farm legal guidelines. 

Deshmukh had then stated that the state intelligence division will conduct a probe into allegations that some celebrities had been pressurised just lately to difficulty tweets in reference to the continuing farmers’ protest.

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