The official website of BJP, the ruling party was hacked last week and remains under ‘maintenance’ mode

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) official website was hacked for a few minutes last week. Minister of Information Technology, Mr. Ravishankar Prasad has told the media yesterday. The site has remained under the “maintenance” mode for more than a week now.

“There are rogue elements in the society. The site was hacked only for a few minutes. We got back control very soon,” Prasad said in the first-ever admission from the government about the BJP site being hacked, at the “Digital India Summit” here.

The minister, nevertheless, did not say when the site is expected to be back.

The message on the BJP website still reads: “We’ll be back soon! Sorry for the inconvenience but we’re performing some maintenance at the moment. We will be back online shortly!”

The BJP IT cell head Amit Malviya last week said the site was not hacked.

While admitting that the site had experienced some sort of “transgression”, Malviya said the site was down due to a “technical glitch”, not hacking.