NAGPUR:
Maharashtra home minister
Anil Deshmukh on Monday clarified that he never said tweets by
Lata Mangeshkar and
Sachin Tendulkar were to be probed.
Addressing his first media briefing after recovering from
Covid, Deshmukh said, "We respect Lata didi (Mangeshkar) like our God and Tendulkar is also loved by all in our country. There is no question of any inquiry against them."
“My statement regarding celebrity tweets on the issue of farmers’ protest has been twisted,” Deshmukh said.
Clarify his earlier statement, the state home minister "I only said that the role of
BJP's IT cell will be looked into for the tweets by celebrities rallying around the Centre."
Deshmukh said that the preliminary inquiry into the tweets by celebrities in response to posts by some international celebrities has brought to fore the names of the BJP IT cell head and 12 “influencers”.
"I had only announced that the BJP IT cell would be probed to see whether they had provided the script for the tweets for the celebrities," said Deshmukh, adding that the
state intelligence department is conducting the probe.