‘BJP IT cell head is maligning SP leadership, will lodge FIR’

Lucknow: Former UP chief minister Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday said Samajwadi Party’s legal cell will lodge an FIR against Amit Malviya, in-charge of BJP’s IT department, for allegedly spreading misinformation through his tweets to malign the image of party leadership.
In-charge of BJP’s national IT department, Malviya had tweeted a photograph of Akhilesh Yadav along with his wife Dimple,Abhishek Misra and MLC Pushparaj Jain among others.
The caption of the photo says: “In 2015 Akhilesh Yadav had led a delegation to Grasse in France on grounds that a perfume park has to come up in Kannauj. In this photograph, his perfume businessman friend can be seen from whose house stacks of currency notes were found buried under the floor and hidden in the walls. This was the wealth that was robbed from the people of UP.”
SP said perfume trader Piyush Jain from whose house the cash has been seized is not in the photograph.
“BJP se jhoota koi nahi hai… Jhoot baantne wala koi nahi,” Akhilesh said, adding that only their own people take these lies as truth. He said BJP leaders sitting in Delhi are spreading rumors to vitiate the atmosphere.
Responding to a media query on if the FIR will be lodged when the SP will form the government after 2022 Assembly polls, Akhilesh said the complaint will be filed soon. “Action will follow after the SP government is formed because in BJP government no action is initiated against anyone who targets me. However, if anyone dares to write anything about their (BJP) leaders, police comes calling,” he said.
Akhilesh said he has learnt that the director general of police has been devoid of all his powers by the present dispensation. “In such a scenario what should I expect from the government and the police,” he said.