BJP promises ‘positive content’. Its new social media team’s record tells another story

Newslaundry · Aug 22, 2026

Days after taking charge as the BJP’s national social media convenor, Deepak Mhaske told a gathering of reporters, “My focus will be to tackle the fake narrative spread by the Opposition, which uses AI in reels to twist facts and mislead people. We have been creating positive content and taking it to people. I will try to add momentum to this.”The 58-year-old chemistry professor-turned-politician has spent over a decade in the party’s IT cell. While he accused the Opposition of peddling “fake narratives” and promised to fight them with “positive content”, his own state unit’s Instagram…