New Delhi: As Narendra Modi prepares to take charge as the next Prime Minister of India, an avoidable controversy is raging over the twitter handle PMOIndia. The managers of outgoing Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh's official twitter handle PMOIndia have now renamed it as Dr Manmohan Singh @PMOIndiaArchive. Its bio/introduction says "Archival material under the RTI Act for @PMOIndia till 20/5/2014. @PMOIndia will be available shortly".
The BJP which has returned to power under Narendra Modi is questioning the decision. According to a leading news agency ANI, the BJP said "Outgoing team PM Office has wrongly renamed Twitter handle of @PMOIndia against laws & accepted global norms of handover of digital assets".
It argued that the post of the Prime Minister is permanent and nobody has exclusive right over what a Prime Minister does in his official capacity during his term in the office. Arvind Gupta,BJP IT Cell Head said,"In an unethical manner they renamed @PMOIndia accnt,should have archived the tweets & handed over the handle."
According to experts, the tweets of the PMOIndia twitter handle are India's digital assets and it does not belong to outgoing Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh.
They demand that the outgoing team of Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh must hand over the twitter handle to next Prime Minister Narendra Modi without archiving any of its contents or deleting it as alleged by some people.
Twitter is abuzz with tweets questioning, criticizing and ridiculing the decision. Some are even alleging that the team of outgoing Prime Minister is deleting a lot tweets and Direct Messages.
Isn?t @PMOIndia for communication from the Prime Minister?s Office? An institutional handle which should continue seamlessly. Surprised!— Nirmala Sitharaman (@nsitharaman) May 20, 2014
PMORelic would have been a better handle than PMOArchive #JustSaying— Namrata Joshi (@Namrata_Joshi) May 20, 2014
Problem 2: By renaming old @PMOIndia as @PMOIndiaArchive only MMS?s tweets get archived? What about when Modi leaves office? No archive? 3/4— Pierre Fitter (@pierrefitter) May 20, 2014
. @narendramodi govt shud immediately write to Twitter USA to regain control— MediaWatcher (@India_MSM) May 20, 2014
Immature & graceless conduct by former handlers of @pmoindia Can you imagine a @WhiteHouse being claimed by all and sundry during transition— Shashi Shekhar (@offstumped) May 20, 2014
The @pmoindia handle should have been treated as a National Digital Asset and transitioned accordingly instead of leaving it open to claims.— Shashi Shekhar (@offstumped) May 20, 2014
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