Hours after abusive tweets were posted on Rahul Gandhi’s Twitter page and the account renamed, his Congress party’s account was hacked. The government has ordered an investigation and asked for the Twitter activity of both accounts in the past week.
The Congress spoke to officials of the Information Technology Ministry and also complained to the police cyber security cell last night.Last night, posted multiple abuses on the Twitter account of Mr Gandhi, removed his profile picture and changed the title from @OfficeOfRG to “Retarded Gandhi”.
A dozen abusive tweets were posted on the @INCIndia’s Twitter page on Thursday morning in the half hour that it took for the party to regain control of the page.
One of the tweets threatened to post a “full dump” of Congress emails.
Eight tweets were posted around 8:30 pm. The tweets were deleted within an hour but new ones came up immediately.
The Congress said it smacked of a “sinister conspiracy and reflected disturbing insecurities of prevalent fascist culture”.
“Such lowly tactics will never drown sane voice of reason nor deter Rahul Gandhi from raising people’s issues,” tweeted Congress spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala.
“Such unscrupulous, unethical & roguish conduct of venal trolls… reflects disturbing insecurities of prevalent fascist culture,” he said in another tweet.
