India can even do ‘digital strike’: Ravi Shankar Prasad after Centre bans 59 apps

New Delhi: After the Centre banned 59 mobile apps, Minister for Electronics and Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad on Thursday said that Indian can even do a “digital strike”.

“For security and sovereignty of India and for the people’s digital security and privacy, we have banned 59 apps, including TikTok. India knows how to look in the eyes of those eyeing our borders and to protect countrymen, India can even do a digital strike,” Prasad said in a virtual West Bengal BJP rally.

Amid border tensions with China in Eastern Ladakh, the government on Monday banned 59 apps, mostly Chinese, including Tik Tok and UC Browser that were “prejudicial to sovereignty and integrity and defence” of the country.