{"id":1029470,"date":"2026-08-18T08:20:39","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T02:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1029470"},"modified":"2026-08-18T08:51:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T03:21:52","slug":"who-is-deepak-mhaskey-bjps-new-it-cell-chief-replacing-amit-malviya-after-11-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/18\/who-is-deepak-mhaskey-bjps-new-it-cell-chief-replacing-amit-malviya-after-11-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is Deepak Mhaskey, BJP&#8217;s new IT cell chief replacing Amit Malviya after 11 years?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The BJP on Monday appointed Deepak Mhaskey as the head of its social media department, replacing Amit Malviya, who had been steering the party&#8217;s social media outreach for 11 years. <\/p>\n<p>An academic and former independent director of Engineers India Limited (EIL), Mhaskey has also served as a chemistry professor in Chhattisgarh. Born in 1968, he is currently the chairman of the Chhattisgarh Medical Services Corporation Limited (CGMSC) and holds the rank of a state minister.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BJP on Monday appointed Deepak Mhaskey as the head of its social media department, replacing Amit Malviya, who had been steering the party&#8217;s social media outreach for 11 years. An academic and former independent director of Engineers India Limited (EIL), Mhaskey has also served as a chemistry professor in Chhattisgarh. Born in 1968, he is currently the chairman of the Chhattisgarh Medical Services Corporation Limited (CGMSC) and holds the rank of a state minister.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1029470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1029470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1029475,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029470\/revisions\/1029475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}