New Delhi: Writer and RSS affiliate Ratan Sharda has criticised BJP leader and the party’s tech cell head Amit Malviya for “trolling citizens”, and called this a “serious problem”.
The author of several books on the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and a regular columnist in its mouthpiece Organiser, Sharda said the BJP leader should refrain from insulting people.
Sharda was reacting to Malviya’s post on X in which he took on detractors of Nirmala Sitharaman’s budget decision to eliminate indexation in property sales. “Everyone is an indexation specialist tonight,” Malviya said in a sarcastic message, but later deleted it.
Reacting to it, Ratan Sharda posted, “This attitude of #BJP IT Cell is a serious problem. Instead of coming up with simplified communication about good points of #Budget2024, he ends up trolling citizens. Answer their fear, don’t insult them dear Amit Malviya.”
Sharda is the author of ‘Conflict Resolution: The RSS way’, ‘RSS From An Organisation To A Movement’ and many other books on the Sangh. He describes himself as a “life-long member” of the RSS.
Sharda had earlier written an opinion piece in Organiser, saying the decision to accept the Ajit Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) in the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) was “ill-advised”. This caused a flutter in Maharashtra political circles. RSS sources had maintained that this was the author’s personal opinion.
In another Organiser article, Sharda said the results of the Lok Sabha elections had come as a “reality check for overconfident BJP karyakartas and many leaders”. He said it exposed the “false ego” of BJP leaders that they alone understood “realpolitik”, while considering RSS cousins to be “village bumpkins”.
(Edited by Tikli Basu)
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