NEW DELHI: BJP’s IT cell that had blocked several accounts for using ‘abusive and unparliamentary language’ against Modi and the party during its election campaign, is likely to unblock them now.National Co-Convener of BJP IT cell, Vinit Goenka, said the cell has suggested to party members, many of them ministers, to rethink the “blocks that have been made by their twitter and Facebook pages during the election campaign and unblock them”.“We had blocked some accounts with abusive posts and tweets but with the government in place , it is time to look at interacting with everyone about collective development,” said Goenka. The party now wishes to “adopt a new policy” on trolls, said Goenka.“We have not still decided how to go about abusive posts now. But we will consult our members and do the needful. The cell that was managing the accounts of all BJP leaders and campaign units said it was not just them, but Congress too had blocked many accounts during the past few months.“Apart from abusive posts, they had also blocked many accounts that were only highlighting the failures of the government and those of karyakartas who were talking about our plans,” said Rishiraj Soni, a volunteer with the cell.Praveen Pandey, a member of the BJP IT cell said the online campaign was divided such that Twitter was handled exclusively by a national team at the centre, whereas individual state units monitored ‘campaign movement’ on Facebook.“The bulk of shares , lengthy posts and pictures were more on Facebook so there was a dedicated team of 30 volunteers working in each of the main states on them. Everyday in the morning we would identify posts that defamed the BJP or Modiji. We reported abuse of about 200 Facebook accounts which were blocked in a day’s time.”This comes closely after Modi’s team decided last week to unblock almost 12,000 Twitter accounts, which were previously blocked by the UPA regime under former PM Manmohan Singh.Sources say almost 16,000 requests were sent to the PM’s office to unblock various accounts for making fun of the former PM. Up till now 4,000 followers have been unblocked and in the next week, and over 8,000 accounts will be unblocked.Singh’s media advisor Pankaj Pachauri who led a team that blocked the accounts declined to comment on the issue.A member of Manomohan Singh’s PMO, however, said the office had only blocked “parody accounts that were spreading false information”. “In the last leg of the campaign, there was a vitriolic campaign against the UPA targeting Manmohan Singh accusing him of being a mute leader. Far from being silent, as these politically motivated posts claimed, Singh had held press interactions and delivered nearly 1,200 speeches over the 10 years of his premiership,” he said, adding the team had also blocked over 126 accounts that were spreading hatred of Muslims which led to issues that saw northeastern people rushing to their hometowns from southern states.”