India, Aug. 17 -- Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla on Monday dismissed buzz that he should have replaced Amit Malviya as the social media head, as the party dropped the latter in a major rejig.

Deepak Mhaskey was named the social media convenor while Priti Gandhi, Shivanand Dwivedi, Alok Bhatt and Arun Yadav were appointed co-convenors.

"Malviya did a lot of hard work but the party also needed some change. He worked so hard for West Bengal. I feel Deepak and his team will bring fresh energy to the party. It is not right to say he was removed from the post," Poonawalla told News24.

He was responding to a question on claims made on social media that he wanted to oversee the party's social media affair...