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Congress Leader Manish Tewari’s Abusive Tweets Against Modi:- Congress leader Manish Tewari triggered a row with a twitter post using abusive language against Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday. This indeed had evoked sharp reactions from the BJP and the twitterati demanding an apology from Sonia Gandhi.
After party general secretary Digvijaya Singh, Tewari is the second Congress leader, to come under fire for using foul language against Modi. Recently, Singh had retweeted a post which contained expletives against the prime minister.
In his post, Tewari wrote in Hindi in Roman script about how Modi “befooled” people and that, “Even Mahatma cannot teach MODI Deshbhakti (patriotism)”.
Is Se Khate Hain Chutiyon Ko Bhakt Bana Na or Bhakton Ko Permanent Chutiya Bana Na -Jai Ho. Even Mahatma can not teach MODI Deshbhakti https://t.co/JifB926g0M
— Manish Tewari (@ManishTewari) September 17, 2017
(Video Source: TV9 Telugu)
This tweet of Tewari comes in as he was responding to a remark made by a person on the micro blogging website that patriotism is in the DNA of Modi and even Mahatma Gandhi cannot teach him that. It was made in response to a short video clip put up by Tewari about a blunder committed by Modi abroad, when he had started walking even as the national anthem was being played.
The Hon'ble Prime Minister of India & the National Anthem of India - Must watch pic.twitter.com/PMVgVw7CYY
— Manish Tewari (@ManishTewari) September 17, 2017
Union minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, reacting sharply, said that after being rejected by people, a desperate Congress and its leaders have “lost their mental balance”. As they have run out of logic to counter him, they are using foul language against the prime minister said Mr. Naqvi.
“A depressed Congress has become an expired bubble of abuses. When they do not have logic they take to such cheap language. The Congress has been rejected by the people and since then its leaders have lost their mental balance. They are in need of urgent psychiatric treatment,” Naqvi said.
He said it is unfortunate that they have forgotten the dignity and decorum politics requires while targeting the BJP and the prime minister.
“It shows the mental state of the Congress and its leaders and the Congress leadership under Sonia Gandhi should apologize for this,” he said. Leaders like Tewari will destroy whatever little support base the Congress has been left with by using such language, added Naqvi.
Another BJP leader Subramanian Swamy alleged that someone else is “orchestrating” Congress’ abusive attack as Tewari has the reputation of being sober and sensitive.
“The only person I think who has the authority to make (such a remark) is Rahul Gandhi, who can say anything anytime.”
“There is a genuine frustration in the Congress that despite all the policy failures that they are trying to point out the country is solidly with the BJP,” he said.
The issue led to a major row on the social media with trolls targeting Tewari. A hashtag “#CongLeaderAbusesPM” was also used and evoked sharp reactions from twitterati.
As criticism mounted, Tewari took to the twitter to say he put out the video ostensibly showing PM walking while National Anthem was playing in response to someone's tweet and that he meant no offence to Modi.
“If brouhaha is over Hindi phrase in colloquial -used to describe idiocity - hing more. In this case of person who put PM over Mahatma,” he said in a series of tweets.
Sonia Gandhi and Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi should tender apology for Tewari’s action otherwise it would be construed that it had their tacit approval, said BJP spokesperson Nalin Kohli.
4/4 if brouhaha is over Hindi phrase in colloquial -used to describe idiocity ¬hing more. In this case of person who put PM over Mahatma
— Manish Tewari (@ManishTewari) September 17, 2017
3/3 or the Mahatma both of whom were invoked in response not my original tweet.In between flts saw the brouhaha on Twitter therefore context
— Manish Tewari (@ManishTewari) September 17, 2017
2/2 Sikhiyan- Unko Mahatma Gandhi v Nahi Sikha Sakta...' Subsequent Tweet in colloquial was deriding the response.No offence meant to PM 2/2
— Manish Tewari (@ManishTewari) September 17, 2017
I put out a video ostensibly showing PM walking while National Anthem was playing.In response someone tweeted "AAP MODI Ko Deshbhakti Na 1/2
— Manish Tewari (@ManishTewari) September 17, 2017
Another BJP spokesman Sambit Patra said since Tewari is the spokesperson of the party Sonia and Rahul needed to explain why he did so. He used the words of Congress leader Jairam Ramesh to hit out at the Congress, saying “the Sultanate has gone but the Sultans still behave as if they are still Sultans”.
A major controversy had been stirred by Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh, a few days ago, by posting a tweet that used abusive language against the prime minister, prompting the BJP to demand an apology from the opposition party for the “filthy abuse”. Singh, however, later disowned it, saying rewtweets are not endorsements, but the trolls did not spare him.
“Retweets are never endorsements. This is the basic principle of Twitter,” he said after the controversy erupted.
“I have said it is not mine. I have disowned it. I have not used those words,” he clarified.
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