Published 12:27 IST, September 28th 2020
Tajinder Bagga attacks Subramanian Swamy on Twitter; gets blocked for his troubles
As senior leader Subramanian Swamy brought the PMO into his battle with the BJP IT cell Amit Malviya, Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga questioned Swamy's loyalty.
Amid senior BJP leader Dr Subramanian Swamy's ultimatum to party president JP Nadda to sack IT cell head, the party reappointed Amit Malviya to continue for the post. Swamy said he had tweeted against Malviya earlier to check whether "fake tweets" against the former were financed by the latter or not. Dr Swamy then claimed that, "it is clear" that it was PMO Haren Joshi behind it and informed that he has written to PM Modi two weeks or so ago bringing this to his notice with documents.
'PMO Hiren Joshi was behind it'
'Can you be ever loyal to a person?"
Soon after Dr Swamy’s tweets, BJP’s Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga hit back at the Rajya Sabha MP and questioned his 'loyalty'. Bagga accused Swamy of ditching the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government in favour of Sonia Gandhi in the late 1990s. Taking to Twitter, Bagga asked Swamy, "Can you be ever loyal to a person or a cause, or is it too much to expect from you?" Bagga also questioned the Rajya Sabha MP alleging change in position over the RSS.
Bagga, who also contested the Delhi Assembly Polls earlier this year, retweeted several tweets criticising Dr Subramanian Swamy. Tajinder Bagga also shared a screengrab of an article retweeted by Dr Swamy which had praised Congress. "Sweeping Revamp to Local Connect: Priyanka 'Didi' is the Agent of Silent Change in Cong's UP Strategy" read the headline of a news article that was retweeted by Swamy. Soon after, Swamy blocked Bagga on Twitter.
Earlier, Subramanian Swamy had accused Malviya of running a campaign against him using fake tweets. The senior party leader had said removing Malviya is the “compromise proposal” he has made to party president J.P. Nadda. If he is not removed, he said, it would mean the party is not willing to “defend me”. Swamy had also shared a lot of tweets from his followers against Malviya.
Before that, Swamy had said, "the BJP IT cell has gone rogue", with some of its members putting out fake ID tweets to make "personal attacks" on him. "One Malaviya (BJP IT cell chief Amit Malviya) character is running riot with filth. We are a party of maryada purushottam not of Ravan or Dushasan," the Rajya Sabha MP said.
Dr Swamy had also defied the party’s standing on the issue of conducting NEET and JEE exams. He had supported the postponement of exams which stood in contradiction of BJP’s decision to go ahead and conduct the entrance exam despite the Coronavirus pandemic. He also wrote a letter to PM Modi requesting the same and also tried calling at his residence.
Updated 12:27 IST, September 28th 2020