Senior Congress chief and MP Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury landed in a soup on Saturday after an alleged tweet from his profile, with a reference to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots on Rajiv Gandhi’s dying anniversary, shocked everybody.
Hours after the tweet was deleted, screenshots of the tweet attributed to Chowdhury’s verified social media deal with went viral. The tweet confirmed the image of the previous Prime Minister with an accompanying quote that stated, “When a big tree falls, the ground shakes.” This quote was famously attributed to Rajiv Gandhi, typically seen as a justification for the anti-Sikh riots in Delhi that took greater than 2,000 lives, after the assassination of Indira Gandhi by her Sikh bodyguards in 1984.
Calling it a “malicious campaign” towards him, Chowdhury, in his defence, wrote on his social media deal with, “The tweet against my name in account has nothing to do with my own observation…a malicious campaign is propagated by those forces inimical to me.”
With the quote bringing again painful recollections of the anti-Sikh riots, BJP and different Opposition events hit out on the Congress. BJP chief and nationwide convener of the BJP IT cell, Amit Malviya tweeted saying that Chowdhury “has decided to call spade a spade”.
Lashing out on the Congress over its “self-goals”, National Conference chief and former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah stated that the Grand Old Party doesn’t want forces from exterior to tug itself down. “What on earth did he think using this quote was going to do for his party or the memory of the leader he was paying tribute to?”, requested Abdullah on his social media deal with.
This shouldn’t be the primary time that Chowdhury has been within the eye of the storm over his controversial statements. After Article 370 was revoked within the Valley in 2019, Chowdhury’s assertion asking if Kashmir was really India’s inside matter because the UN has been monitoring the state of affairs since 1948 left Sonia Gandhi visibly red-faced within the parliament. Amid the National Register of Citizens (NRC) controversy, Chowdhury had known as PM Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah as “illegal migrants” as they got here to Delhi from Gujarat themselves.
Source: www.financialexpress.com”