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The Twitter War on Modi
By siliconindia
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Wednesday, 21 September 2011, 23:42 IST |
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Bangalore: It all began with Sushma Swaraj's statement that People's Democratic Party's Chief Mehbooba Mufti had praised Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, a statement that lead to a war of words between the political rivals in Jammu and Kashmir. Sushma Swaraj also went on stating that a friend of Mehbooba Mufti had asked for a favour from Narendra Modi which was granted immediately.
The PDP boss was quick in responding to sushma Swaraj's claim and termed it baseless and untrue and said she has not met the BJP's top lady in years. She also refuted that she has not introduced any friend to Modi and demanded her National Integration Council speech be made public.
Mehbooba clarification was began a war of words on the microblogging website Twitter on which Shushma Swaraj, Leader of the opposition in Lok Sabha wrote, "I correctly quoted Ms.Mehbooba Mufti in Ahmedabad yesterday. It was not a private conversation. I only quoted what she spoke in the presence of over a hundred people in the afternoon session of the NIC meeting on 10th September."
Smelling the political opportunity, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah tweeted, "I'm not surprised Mehbooba praised Modi, she can praise who ever she likes; I am surprised she'd deny it knowing others heard her speech."
Adding fuel to the burning issue, he went on to tweet, "Why can't she just admit what she said rather than deny the whole thing. So much more graceful to accept rather than call Ms Swaraj a liar."
