Senior Congress chief and MP Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury has claimed that his social media account was hacked moments after a tweet attributed to his official deal with with an image of Rajiv Gandhi and an accompanying phrase “when a big tree falls, the ground shakes”, shocked everybody. The put up, which was made on the previous Prime Minister’s demise anniversary, was quickly deleted. However, the screenshot of the tweet went viral.
Chowdhury claims that he was giving a speech at a celebration workplace in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district when the tweet was posted. He known as it a “malicious campaign” and alleged that the content material of the put up had bought nothing to do along with his commentary.
“The tweet against my name in the Twitter account has nothing to do with my observation. A malicious campaign is propagated by those forces inimical to me”, Chowdhury wrote on his social media deal with.
He mentioned {that a} criticism relating to the alleged ‘cybercrime’ has been lodged at New Delhi’s South Avenue Police Station. Speaking to information company PTI, Chowdhury mentioned that this was an try to malign him and his occasion’s picture.
“The content posted smacks of malice and I believe that my Twitter account had been hacked by some wrongdoers for the reasons best known to them. I, hereby urge your good self to take immediate cognizance of this instant complaint and please enquire and seal the IP address and take appropriate action of cybercrime at the earliest in occurrence with the law and oblige,” he mentioned within the police criticism.
On Rajiv Gandhi’s thirty first demise anniversary, the tweet attributed to Chowdhury’s official deal with created an enormous controversy because it evoked painful recollections of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots that claimed almost 2,000 lives in Delhi. The ‘big tree falls’ comment was famously attributed to Rajiv Gandhi allegedly justifying the riots after the assassination of his mom Indira Gandhi by her Sikh bodyguards.
Source: www.financialexpress.com”