While Digital India, PLI for electronics have been big focus areas for him, Prasad will be remembered for sending a strong message to FB, WhatsApp and Twitter to follow the rules of the land <\/p>\n
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On Wednesday evening, after the President accepted his resignation, the former Electronics and Information Technology minister Ravi Shankar Prasad changed his Twitter bio to \"Member of Parliament from Patna Sahib Lok Sabha, Bihar. BJP worker\". <\/p>\n
Prasad has had a long stintseven yearsin his role as the IT minister for the country, in a government focused heavily on technology and digitalisation. Programmes like Digital India, the Performance-Linked Incentive (PLI) scheme for electronics manufacturing, Common Service Centres, the Business Process Outsourcing ...<\/p>\n
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First Published: Wed, July 07 2021. 19:22 IST<\/p>\n
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