Congress IT cell head booked for viral online ‘survey’

Ahmedabad: Offense has been registered by BJP leader Parindu Bhagat(Kakubhai) in Cyber Cell of Ahmedabad Crime Branch against Gujarat Congress IT cell head Rohan Gupta who is son of Congress leader Rajkumar Gupta.

Gupta has been booked under IPC 188, 171(g) and Peoples Representative Act section 126(1) and 127(A).

According to complaint, Gupta shared survey figure on his twitter handle. Complaints states that as per the Election Commission rules, this is illegal. The survey result was tweeted after first phase of voting in Saurashtra/Kutch and South Gujarat regions. Election Commission has banned broadcast or publication of exit polls till voting for the second and the last phase is over(5.00 pm on December 14).

Gupta had shared the survey in name of ChanakyaIndia. This name is similar to Today’s Chanakya which is leading survey agency. Today’s Chanakya has in series of tweets denied it had released any prediction on first phase polling in Gujarat.

The message had gone virus in a style of exit poll done by Today’s Chanakya.

More on this here in opindia report

Who has filed complaint: Parindu Bhagat , inacharge of election legel cell, Gujarat state BJP

Against whom the complaint has been filed: Rohan Gupta, IT Cell Chairman in Gujarat Congress

What is the crime: On 10 December 2017 at 2.25 pm, Congress IT cell chairman Rohan Gupta from his twitter ID @RohanGupta shared exit poll in which he claimed Congress would get 65 seats and BJP 22 while others will get 2 seats. The photograph had ‘Chanakya India’ and ‘Chanakyaindia.in’ text. The complainant claims that such poll could impact the election resutls and there was a ban on such survey by Election COmmission but the order of Election Commission was breached and made viral.

Congress clarifies: Meanwhile Congress has claimed that this was an online survey for which a website ChanakyaIndia.in was created.

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