law minister ravi shankar prasad surjewala saidthe congress spokesperson went on to remark that the bjp leader was blaming others when he was the captain of a leaking shipthe countrys it and law minister knows more about leaks than anyone else be it aadhaar database or call records whichever ministry hes in charge of develops leaks surjewala jibedcambridge analytica has been in the eye of the storm following an investigation by britains channel 4 which alleged that the firm mined personal information of facebook users for political purposes uk authorities are also investigating reports that ca used data harvested from the social networking site in the voter research it conducted for us president donald trump during the 2016 elections campaignat a press briefing earlier in the day prasad warned social media platforms like facebook of stringent action if any attempt was made by them to influence the countrys electoral process through undesirable meanslet me make it very very clear we fully support freedom of press speech and expression we fully support free exchange of ideas on social media but any attempt covert or overt by social media including facebook of trying to influence indias electoral process through undesirable means will neither be appreciated nor be tolerated prasad saidthe union minister also sought to know from the congress how much data trade it had with cambridgeanalytica in view of recent gujarat and northeast elections and the upcoming assembly polls in karnatakawatch data breach scandal war of words between bjp congress