Controversial Tweets That Made Headlines

Bangalore: Social media like Twitter has grown significantly in a developing nation like India over the past few years. There are approximately 5 million Twitter users in this country. Twitter is noted to be essentially a popular medium for a certain section of upwardly mobile Indians and the elite. Many twitterati often takes on to twitter to voice out their opinion on a certain topic that ultimately does not go down too well with the masses. Here are 10 such tweets that land into controversy, as reported by Manjunath R Setty of MSN.

Arvind Kejriwal (January 2014)
Arvind Kejriwal, Delhi Chief Minister is indeed controversy’s favourite child. This is because whatever he does or speaks becomes a controversy. Kejriwal’s Twitter account has 1.2 million followers and pompously announces to his followers that a ‘Political revolution in India has begun. Bharat jaldi badlega. (India will change soon).’ But, most recently he was found himself in the middle of a Twitter row when he retweeted music director Vishal Dadlani’s post, "Stuck between a moron and a murderer....what now, India!?" The comment was made by the music maestro after an interview of Rahul Gandhi was aired by a private news channel. The tweets were apparently aimed at Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, reports PTI.

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