Modi's social media team linked with Rajapaksa election campaign

An expert behind the Indian prime minister’s social media campaign will aid the Sri Lankan president, Mahinda Rajapaksa’s re-election campaign, reports the Hindu.

Arvind Gupta, one of the chief architects behind Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s social media campaign during the Indian elections, has offered assistance to the Rajapaksa, according to highly placed sources in Colombo.

Gupta reportedly visited Colombo in November, an official source in New Delhi told the Hindu.

Dismissing rumours of involvement with the Sri Lankan president, Gupta told the Hindu, that “people know we worked for a massive victory in the Indian elections, and we have been winning election after election since.”

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