Lalu Prasad, sons Tejashwi and Tej Pratap granted bail in land-for-jobs case
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Tejashwi Yadav, former Bihar deputy chief minister and RJD leader, took a dig at JD(U) leader KC Tyagi and alleged that his son Amrish, who worked for disgraced data analysis firm Cambridge Analytica, had helped the Bharatiya Janata Party.
According to the media reports, Amrish is the managing director of Ovleno Business Intelligence (OBI), which is an Indian affiliate of CA’s parent company Strategic Communications Laboratories.
Yadav took to Twitter and wrote, “Bihar CM Nitish’s close confidante and one instrumental in JDU’s reunion with BJP-KC Tyagi’s son Amrish Tyagi worked for #CambridgeAnalytica and helped it work for BJP as report confirms! Nitish & PM Modi has a lot to answer.”
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NitishKumar & PM Modi are only politicians in the country who take help of PR agencies like #CambridgeAnalytica to create hype around their non existent work! Both are answerable to the country for their Party’s links with the agency!
— Tejashwi Yadav (@yadavtejashwi) March 22, 2018
Denying the allegation levelled on his son, KC Tyagi clarified that Amrish’s company only had a work relationship with the CA. He further claimed that there had been no financial transaction or shareholding between the two companies.
“There was only a work relation between my son Amrish’s company and Cambridge Analytics. There is no financial transaction or shareholding, everything is open to probe. JD(U) also has no links with this, neither did they promote us in 2010 polls,” he told ANI.
“JD(U) has no relation with Cambridge Analytics, neither has its CEO ever met Nitish ji or me. In any case, JD(U) is a socialist outfit and we stay away from such things, except for maybe Prashant Kishore ji helping us during last assembly polls,” he added.
It has been alleged that the CA illegally mined the private data of Facebook users to influence the 2016 US elections.
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