The Haryana unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday sacked its IT cell head Arun Yadav over a tweet courting again to 2017, amid an ongoing row over Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair, after requires his arrest began trending on Twitter and different social media platforms.
The social gathering’s determination for the “immediate” elimination of Yadav because the state IT cell in-charge was introduced by Haryana social gathering secretary Gulshan Bhatia citing no causes.
After a sustained marketing campaign on social media calling for Yadav’s arrest relating to his previous tweet that went viral, the social gathering was compelled to behave, a BJP chief advised The Indian Express. “With over 85,000 tweets seeking his arrest, it has become a big issue,” the social gathering chief was quoted as saying to IE.
Although no formal grievance has been lodged at any police station, netizens tagged the Haryana and Delhi police, arguing that if Zubair might be held over a 2018 tweet for hurting spiritual sentiments, then why had been the identical requirements not relevant to Yadav for allegedly tweeting in opposition to Islam.
Yadav has been on Twitter since August 2015 and has over six lakh followers. With almost 30,000 tweets, Yadav primarily tweets on the a number of insurance policies, choices and schemes of BJP authorities. #ArrestArunYadav has been trending for the final two days with over 186,000 tweets.
Source: www.financialexpress.com”