TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ Information and Broadcasting Minister Smriti Irani on Saturday took a jibe at Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi over the rise in the number of people retweeting his messages and sought to link this with twitter accounts in Russia, Indonesia and Kazakhstan.
Congress however rejected the allegation as “factually wrong”.Ms Irani attached with her tweet a news report, “Bots behind rise in Rahul Gandhi’s twitter popularity?”, which said that a glance at the twitter handles retweeting Gandhi’s tweets does throw up some questions.
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Her junior in the ministry, Rajyavardhan Rathore, compared the act to doping in sports. “In sports, this would come under ‘Doping’… hey wait!?? Does ‘dope’ remind you of someone,” he said in a tweet. Divya Spandana, who heads the Social Media and Digital Communications wing of the Congress, hit back at Ms Irani and termed the news story as “factually wrong”.”Why do we need them when we have you?” she said in response to Ms Irani’s tweet.
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