– NEW DELHI
Social media in India was gripped in to another controversy on Tuesday when Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday retweeted a music director’s tweet aimed at Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi.
Kejriwal retweeted had music director Vishal Dadlani’s tweet on Monday night which read, “Stuck between a moron and a murderer….what now, India!?”
Apparently, Dadlani made the comment after a private channel aired an interview of Rahul Gandhi. Dadlani had been making such remarks in the past as well but Kejriwal’s retweet has been taken as an endorsement and has been criticized in the political sphere.
The BJP spokesperson Nirmala Sitharamam criticized the CM’s move, saying that as a Chief Minister he should be “doubly conscious” of what he endorses.
“It doesn’t auger well at all. A Chief Minister even if he endorses or doesn’t endorse the retweet itself, he has allowed a certain language which is not deserving of either a Chief Minister or even a Member of Parliament. It is not doing the public discourse any favour.”
She also advised Kejriewal that being a Chief Minister, he should be conscious of what he is doing.
“If comments are on public personalities, one occupying the position of Chief Minister of Gujarat and the other Member of Parliament. It may be the independent view of a music director, but the Chief Minister (Kejriwal) should have been conscious.”
– ONLINE