New Delhi: The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party’s website is up and running almost a fortnight after it was allegedly hacked. Interestingly, the website, bjp.o-rg, came back online sans the data it displayed before it went down.
The BJP, which boasts itself on being digitally ahead of others, made its website online with a new ‘design’ after it displayed the message “We will be back soon” almost for 15 days albeit with limited functionality.
However, the only data that could be accessed on the website is the list of the candidates declared by the party on March 20. The photographs of the Prime Minister and party chief also adorn the site’s homepage. The tagline — Abki Baar Fir Modi Sarkar — also appears on the top of the page prominently.
Data like organisational details, old press releases, older communications and other links that are interlinked with BJP website are yet to be uploaded. Sources stated that data stored on the website had taken a hit, forcing the party to come up with a new design.
Despite repeated attem-pts, BJP’s IT head Amit Malviya was unavailable for comment. The social media cell in charge for the Lok Sabha elections, Shyam Jaju, however, maintained that the ‘hacking’ appears to be the work of the Opposition. Sources in the party said that the new website has been uploaded on the server after various vulnerability tests.
Even the Congress had recently taken a dig at the BJP for not being able to reload its website. “morning @bjp4india we realise you’ve been down for a long time now. If you need help getting back up, we’re happy to help (sic),” it had tweeted.
