New Delhi, Mar 29 (UNI) BJP on Thursday lashed out at the Congress for yet another "expose" of its links with the controversial data mining firm Cambridge Analytica and said the Opposition party cannot continue to be on denial mode.
"Congress has been caught red-handed with their hand poster; there is no escape," senior BJP leader Dr Subramanian Swamy said here.
Another party leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, also a Union Minister, said the Congress has only betrayed its "mind set" by trying to indulge in data theft along with a foreign company, to influence polls.
"This is a dangerous game and reflects their mind set," he said, adding "when in power, the Congress leaders spied each other, now in Opposition, they are trying to spy on the simpleton people".
"Such links will harm Congress," he said, adding that all their denials have fallen flat, so far.
The remarks from BJP leaders come in the wake of a video screen grab of Cambridge Analytica's suspended Chief Executive Officer Alexander Nix's London office that shows a poster with Congress' hand symbol.
Meanwhile, in a tweet Christopher Wylie, a former employee of Cambridge Analytica, wrote "I've been getting a lot of requests from Indian journalists, so here are some of SCL's past projects in India. To the most frequently asked question yes SCL/CA works in India and has offices there. This is what modern colonialism looks like".
SCL India is an offshoot of Cambridge Analytica.
In one section - 2007 Kerala, West Bengal, Assam, Bihar, Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh, he claims, "SCL India was asked to undertake a research communication campaign to support a trans-national programmer for countering the Non-Desired Behaviour (NDB) of recruitment into, and support of, violent Jihadism.
'The project focused on ancillary populations as opposed to perpetrators of violent Jihadism themselves and required in-depth motivational understanding of the populations of six states.'
Its reach in India is said to include a head office in Ghaziabad, with regional offices in Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Cuttack, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Indore, Kolkata, Patna and Pune.
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