'I will shoot you': In Facebook post, BJP leader’s son issues death threat to Jyotiraditya Scindia

Sep 3 (AZINS) In a bizarre case, young son of a BJP lawmaker in Madhya Pradesh issued death threats to senior Congress leader Jyotiraditya Scindia on Facebook recently.

According to an IANS report, Princedeep Lalchand Khatik son BJP lawmaker Uma Devi Khatik, took to Facebook and threatened the Congress leader.

"Jyotiraditya Scindia, you have Jiwajirao's blood running in your veins, who killed Jhansi ki Rani. If you step in Hatta then I will shoot you. Either you will die or I will," Khatik said on Facebook.

Khatik’s statement comes ahead of Scindia's scheduled visit to MP’s Hatta district to hold a rally on September 5.

Scindia slammed BJP for the Facebook post, which was deleted later. ‘The real face of BJP comes forward with this. The aim of BJP govt, its leadership and CM Chouhan is only to demolish Congress. I would like to tell them that we will never bow down to such threats,’ Jyotiraditya Scindia was quoted as saying by news agency ANI.

Meanwhile, ahead of the upcoming assembly elections, the Madhya Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC) has made it mandatory for the party members, especially the aspiring candidates, to be active on social media.

In a letter, dated September 2, the MPCC has asked its party members to ensure that they must have 15,000 likes on the Facebook page, 5000 followers on Twitter, and it is mandatory to be a part of several Whatsapp groups of booth-level workers in connection with the upcoming assembly elections in the state.

The party members were also asked to re-tweet and like all posts of Madhya Pradesh Congress and share the posts from the official Indian National Congress (INC) on their own pages as much as possible.

The leaders were asked to submit details of their social media handles to the party by September 15, if they want their names to be considered for nomination for tickets for the state assembly elections.

According to reports, the BJP’s IT cell in the state has said that about 65,000 "cyber warriors" have been tasked with running the party's online campaign effectively.