New Delhi: As it shuffled its deck of national-level office-bearers on Monday (August 17) the BJP replaced its longtime social media head Amit Malviya with Deepak Mhaskey, a member of the party’s Chhattisgarh unit and an official in the government of that state.Alongside appointing Mhaskey to the post of social media convenor, the BJP has also made Priti Gandhi, Shivanand Dwivedi, Alok Bhatt and Arun Yadav co-convenors. They are from Maharashtra, Delhi, Uttarakhand and Haryana respectively.All of their X accounts are either unavailable or have been scrubbed of their posts: Mhaskey’s account no longer contains posts older than Monday, Gandhi and Bhatt‘s pages are no longer visible, while Dwivedi and Yadav‘s accounts are private.This comes amid some scrutiny of these office-bearers’ past posts on the platform, with some recalling that the BJP had removed Yadav as its ‘IT cell’ in-charge for Haryana four years ago in the wake of a campaign that drew attention to his posts on Muslims and Islam.Fact-checker Mohammed Zubair of Alt News also noted that Gandhi seemed to have called herself a fan of Nathuram Godse, the assassin of Mahatma Gandhi, in 2012. According to another post by Zubair, Bhatt made distasteful remarks on Muslims and on Sonia Gandhi in 2016 and 2012.Malviya, an outspoken official of the BJP who is also known for sharing misinformation, congratulated the party’s new social media office-bearers and said they have been appointed at a “crucial juncture”, as the saffron party “prepares to scale newer heights and take its message and organisation to every corner of the country”.He remains co-in-charge for the party’s West Bengal unit and a member of its national executive.Mhaskey acknowledged his new posting on X, where his only two posts show him meeting with Chhattisgarh chief minister Vishnu Deo Sai and former CM Raman Singh.The party’s social media shuffle – occurring as part of a wider national-level shake-up under new president Nitin Nabin – also happens to take place weeks after the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP)-led youth protests caused the BJP among its most visible setbacks in years. That agitation, as was the CJP’s ascent, were largely powered by social media.