Senior Congress leader Ahmed Patel has said that his party has decided to create its "cyber army" to take on BJP's "onslaught" on the social media.

"We will be creating our cyber army to counter the BJP's onslaught on social media which has become important in the run up to the 2014 general elections," Patel said last evening during a training workshop of IT Cell of the party workers at Bharuch, about 90 kms from Vadodara.

The Congress party has geared up to face challenges and fight for truth after "spread of lies by BJP whose ideology divides the people," said Patel, the political secretary to Congress president Sonia Gandhi.

Till now these lies were limited to Gujarat state, but now it is being spread across the country, he said.

"The focus of our training the cyber army is to spread in social media the achievements of the UPA government, to bring out the falsehood spread by BJP in the virtual world, and to bring ground realities and problems of people to the fore," he said, adding that their cyber army will comprise of party workers and well-wishers.

Also read  Ahmed Patel's column on Rediff.com: 'The common men and women keep India going'