AMN / New Delhi
The BJP today slammed Congress president Rahul Gandhi for his jibe at Prime Minister on reports that user information on the ‘Narendra Modi App’ was being leaked to American companies and encouraged Congress chief to doawnload the App.
“Rahul Gandhi is no match for Narendra Modi,” the saffron party asserted in a series of missives in the micro blogging site Twitter.
It also said: “Rahul Gandhi truly shows why he and his party have zero knowledge of technology.
All they can do is scare the masses about technology while they continue to steal data using his ‘Brahmastra’ of Cambridge Analytica”.
Contrary to Rahul’s lies, fact is that data is being used for only analytics using third party service, similar to Google Analytics. Analytics on the user data is done for offering users the most contextual content.
— BJP (@BJP4India) March 25, 2018
“The ‘Narendra Modi App’ is a unique App, which unlike most Apps, gives access to users in ‘guest mode’ without even any permission or data. The permissions required are all contextual and cause-specific,” said the party in a series of tweets from its Twitter handle @BJP4India.
“We also take this opportunity to encourage Rahul Gandhi to download NaMo App to keep himself appraised of the good things happening in India,” the BJP4India said.
It also put out several tweets on the matter.
The ruling party further wrote: “contrary to Rahul’s lies, fact is that data is being used for only analytics using third party service, similar to Google Analytics. Analytics on the user data is done for offering users the most contextual content.”
“Rahul Gandhi is no match for Narendra Modi. But seeing his fright about the Namo App, is very amusing. When his bots tried to trend #DeleteNamoApp day before yesterday, the popularity and downloads of Namo App only increased,” the BJP claimed.
“Rahul Gandhi is in sublime form these days. After MRI & NCC, today he exposes his great knowledge about technology. He is so rattled by the Cambridge Analyitca expose that he daily tries to divert attention from it, yesterday it was the judiciary and today it is Namo App,” the ruling party said.
The reference was to the Magnetic Resonance Imaging and also the Congress president speaking about National Cadet Corps (NCC).
While interacting with the students at Maharani’s Arts College for Women in Mysuru, Karnataka, Rahul Gandhi said that he did not know about the NCC certification.
“I don’t know the details of NCC training and that type of stuff, so I won’t be able to answer that question,” he said during the interaction.
Mr Gandhi’s comments were reacted adversely by many in the social network while one NCC Cadet, Sanjana Singh expressed astonishment over the Congress chief referring the line of defence as ‘other stuff’.
The battle of words between BJP and the Congress has turned much bitter after reports surfaced about Congress party allegedly enlisting the services of data mining firm Cambridge Analytica.
The Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad charged Mr Gandhi with using the services of the controversial British firm for Gujarat polls campaign last year. The Congress has hit back denying the charge and Mr Gandhi himself has slammed the Union Minister and questioned his efficiency in the running of the key ministry.