NEW DELHI- Hitting out at the BJP, Congress accused the ruling party ofmanufacturing fake news. “Hitler had an associate called Goebbels, Modi jihas an associate called Ravi Shankar Prasad.

BJP government has become a manufacturer of fake news. Sabse bade data chormacha rahe hain sabse zyada shor (The biggest data thieves are making themost noise),” Congress leader Randeep Surjewala said on Thursday.

His comment comes hours after Ravi Shankar Prasad had said that the Gandhiscion usedlink>theservices of Cambridge Analytics in Gujarat Assembly elections in 2017.Addressing a press conference, Prasad said that Rahul must come clean onthe issue. He also cited media reports during Gujarat elections regardingthe issue to assert his point.

“The Congress has maintained conspicuous silence (on their ties withCambridge Analytica). Rahul Gandhi’s entire social media campaign has beenmanaged with the help of Cambridge Analytica and they have had meetingsalso,” he added.

Earlier in the day, Rahul took to microblogging site Twitter alleging thatthe data leak story was invented by the government to divert attention fromthe issue of killing of Indians in Iraq’s Mosul by terrorist group IslamicState.

Rahul tweeted that media networks bit the “bait”, making the issue of deathof 39 Indians in Iraq “vanish from radar”. He said that the Narendra Modigovernment was “caught lying” on the issue.