The BJP has handed charge of its national IT cell to Chhattisgarh’s Deepak Mhaskey, ending Amit Malviya’s run of more than 10 years at the head of the party’s digital operations – a decade in which he was the BJP’s loudest voice online and, by some distance, its most fact-checked.
Malviya is still co-incharge of West Bengal, a state the party swept in the recent assembly elections. Mhaskey, on the other hand, was part of the party’s social media team. Before entering electoral data analysis, he taught chemistry and worked across agriculture and horticulture. He has also sat on the board of a public-sector undertaking and occupied a senior post in the Chhattisgarh administration.
