BJP leader Subramanian Swamy has recently alleged that at the behest of Hiren Joshi, working in the PMO, IT cell people target and abuse him on social media. Swamy also surrounded PM Modi on this pretext and wrote that ‘the difference between Modi and me is that he has kept blind devotees like Hiren Joshi to abuse my family. I write my own tweets and Modi’s tweets are written by people like Hiren Joshi taking money.
Who is Hiren Joshi?: Hiren Joshi is the OSD in PMO. He is also called the eyes and ears of Narendra Modi. Hiren Joshi did his early education from Banswara, Rajasthan. After this he did Electronics Engineering from Pune. He then earned a PhD from the Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management (IIITM) Gwalior. Joshi started his career as an assistant professor at Manikya Lal Verma Textile and Engineering College, Bhilwara.
How did you meet Modi?: When Narendra Modi was the Chief Minister of Gujarat, the state government had organized a program for the engineers there. During the program, there was a sudden technical problem, since the CM was also present in this program, then everyone’s hands and feet started to swell.
Although Hiren Joshi rectified the flaw within a few minutes, Modi was very impressed with him. Later in the year 2008, Joshi was given the responsibility of handling the social media account of Narendra Modi. After this he came closer to Narendra Modi and he was made OSD of CM Modi.
Hiren Joshi came to Delhi when Modi became PM: In the year 2014, when Narendra Modi became Prime Minister, Hiren Joshi’s entry was also done in PMO and he became OSD. His rank in the PMO is at the level of Joint Secretary. In the political corridors, Joshi is also called the eyes and ears of the PM. Hiren Joshi monitors all activities of PM Modi’s website, blog, social media accounts (Twitter, Facebook and Instagram etc.).
Gives report to PM Modi everyday: Hiren Joshi is responsible for PM Modi’s digital presence in a way. Every activity on the PM’s social media account first passes through the eyes of Hiren Joshi, only after getting the green signal from him, it is posted.
Joshi is the person who took the initiative to make narendramodi.in available in Sanskrit and Hindi also. According to a report in ET, Joshi sorts out 100 messages every day and shows them to the PM out of the thousands of messages that appear on the PM’s social media account. Every day late at night, they also give a report to the PM on every movement happening in the social media and digital world.
When Hiren Joshi was discussed a lot: After becoming Prime Minister in the year 2014, Narendra Modi was going to Japan for the first time. A tweet in Japanese was made from his Twitter account just before this visit. Seeing the tweet in Japanese from PM Modi’s Twitter account, people thought that his account had been hacked but it was not so.
Hiren Joshi was also behind this tweet, who had posted the tweet from the account of Narendra Modi after getting the tweet translated from the Indian Embassy in Japan, then after checking on the software.