The Telangana government's digital media director Dileep Konatham lashed out at BJP IT wing head Amit Malviya.
This comes on the heels of Telangana IT and urban affairs minister KT Rama Rao's war of words last week with former Infosys director TV Mohandas Pai over malnutrition. (Creative Commons)
The director of the Telangana government’s digital media wing, Dileep Konatham, has deemed Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) IT cell chief Amit Malviya a case study for a “habitual peddler of misinformation”.
This, in effect, gave the tussle between the TRS and the BJP — in power at the Centre and in Telangana, respectively — a new turn, as the heads of the digital wings of both the parties on Monday, 5 September, took on each other over the kidnapping and abduction cases registered in the state in 2021, according to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB).
The duel of words started when Malviya alleged in a tweet that Telangana saw a sharp rise in kidnapping cases under the leadership of Chief Minister and TRS chief K Chandrashekar Rao.
He alleged that KCR was nestled in his farmhouse, with the support of Hyderabad Member of Parliament Assaduddin Owaisi’s party AIMIM, while the law and order situation order deteriorates in the state.
Malviya, a former banker, posted the tweet with a picture of a linear graph showing a rise in the number of kidnapping and abduction cases registered in Telangana from 2015 to 2021.
He made references to the recent communal outrage in Hyderabad after Goshamahal MLA T Raja Singh’s alleged remarks on Prophet Muhammad.
Telangana, under KCR, registers sharp rise in kidnapping and abduction cases. The CM is ensconced in his Farm House and under the veto of AIMIM, while law and order situation deteriorates. We just saw how Hyderabad burnt recently and CM did nothing except watch helplessly… pic.twitter.com/fCzc3J0ytR
— Amit Malviya (मोदी का परिवार) (@amitmalviya) September 5, 2022
Konatham retorted with data from BJP-ruled states. In his quick response, he hit back at Malviya and called him a “habitual peddler of misinformation”.
Konatham also asked Malviya whether he also checked the number of registered cases in BJP-governed states before posting his tweet.
Amit Ji
Wanted to share this good news with you! Telangana recently started @FactCheck_TS initiative and we teach a special case-study to students on you titled 'Habitual Peddlers of Misinformation'
By the way, did you checkout stats of BJP ruled states before tweeting this? https://t.co/6P75mNEUps pic.twitter.com/zoWtPOxC2y
— Konatham Dileep (@KonathamDileep) September 5, 2022
This came on the heels of Telangana IT and Urban Affairs minister KT Rama Rao’s war of words last week with former Infosys director TV Mohandas Pai over malnutrition.
Right before this episode, the Telangana minister, on 29 August, engaged in a Twitter battle with Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya over “zero sanctioned medical colleges” for Telangana.
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