"After Abhishek Banerjee threatened to resign on the issue of one person one post, a paranoid Mamata Banerjee dissolved all party posts, constituted a “committee”, marginalising those aligned to Abhishek. What next? Sack all ministers and run the Govt alone? Fear of coup is real!"
February 14, 2022His comments come in the wake of media reports stating that the Chhattisgarh government told the Legislative Assembly that 141 farmers had committed suicide over a period of 10 months between April 1, 2020, and February 1, 2021.
October 6, 2021Malviya's allegation against Mamata Banerjee came alongside a photograph of the water logging at the Maternity Ward of Kolkata’s apex SSKM Hospital, situated in Bhabanipur.
September 20, 2021Taking to Twitter, National in-charge of BJP's Information and Technology department, Amit Malviya said, "Have phones been hacked - NOT SURE. Who ordered the hack - NO IDEA. Where did the list of phone numbers come from - NO ONE KNOWS. Did the investigative story give any evidence to suggest who could be behind it - NO. This, in a nutshell, is the concocted Pegasus hack story."
July 22, 2021Malviya claimed that of the 80 groups included in OBC-A (more backward), 72 are Muslims and in the OBC-B (backward), about 40 groups are Muslims. Thus, out of 170 groups listed in the OBC category, 112 are Muslims.
June 20, 2021However, it was not clear from Amit Malviya's tweet tweet if the central government would provide free vaccines to all the citizens of the country as the Union Health Ministry has not made such claims yet.
January 10, 2021Mr Khurshid is of the opinion that the central government, with the CAA and the intention of conducting a pan-India NRC, should have given it a deeper thought to finalise what documents they want shown.
August 10, 2020BJP IT cell chief Amit Malviya accused Banerjee of fudging COVID-19 cases numbers.
April 6, 2020He made the remark in a tweet he put out to congratulate Indian-American economist Abhijit Banerjee for winning the Economics Nobel prize.
October 15, 2019"The upcoming elections will be fought on the mobile phone... In a way, you could say they would be ‘WhatsApp elections'."
May 19, 2019While asking political parties and news channels to act more responsibly and avoid speculating on dates of polls, the Election Commission on Friday ruled out any ‘leak’ of the schedule of the Karnataka Assembly elections as alleged by Opposition. The EC had set up a committee on 27 March to look into the allegations of …
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April 14, 2018A day after the Election Commission (EC) constituted a committee of its six senior officers to probe into alleged leak of the Karnataka poll schedule, the Congress criticised the EC for excluding the ruling BJP’s IT cell head Amit Malviya (pic) in the panel’s terms of reference while including the Karnataka Congress’s social media in-charge …
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March 29, 2018Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) IT-cell head Amit Malviya will not be probed by the Election Commission of India (EC) over Karnataka election schedule leak. According to EC’s office order, Srivatsa B, who heads the Congress party’s social media cell in Karnataka will be questioned. However, the office order has no mention of BJP IT Cell …
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March 28, 2018The Election Commission on Tuesday evening set up a committee of senior officials to probe the leak of the poll schedule for Karnataka before it was announced by the Chief Election Commissioner earlier on Tuesday. The committee, which has been asked to submit its report within a week, would also suggest steps needed to prevent …
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March 28, 2018Amid a controversy, the Election Commission (EC) Tuesday announced the schedule of the Karnataka Assembly elections, declaring that the polling for the single-phase elections for the 224-member Assembly will be held on 12 May with the counting of votes to be carried out on 15 May. Reflecting the fierce conflict and high stakes of the …
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March 28, 2018Following major uproar over the alleged leak of Karnataka poll dates, the Election Commission on Tuesday constituted a committee of officers to probe the sensitive matter, officials said. The committee will submit the report within 7 days. “EC has constituted a committee of officers to probe the matter… Report will be submitted in seven days,” …
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March 27, 2018A BJP delegation led by senior leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Tuesday informed the EC that the party’s IT cell head had “no intention” to undermine the poll panel’s stature after he ‘leaked’ the Karnataka Assembly poll date before the poll panel’s official announcement. Talking to the media after meeting Election Commission (EC) officials here, …
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March 27, 2018