The spat between Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress is an ongoing affair on Twitter.

Each tries to outsmart the other with jibes and insults on social media while pointing out at the gaffes committed by the other whenever they have been in power at whatever point in time.

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Karnataka Congress leader Divya Spandana has now taken a dig at Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Smriti Irani with an old video.

“Even Chutki would know how many states are there in India,” wrote Spandana while attaching the video.

Even Chutki would know how many states are there in India- pic.twitter.com/NpSYoqf5NG

— Divya Spandana/Ramya (@divyaspandana) March 27, 2018

Chutki is a supporting character in the popular children’s cartoon series ‘Chhota Bheem’. Interestingly, Irani had on Monday taken a jibe at Congress president Rahul Gandhi by comparing him to Chhota Bheem.

In the video, which is from 2003, Shekhar Suman is seen asking Irani the number of states in India. She fails to answer.

The video is from the time when Irani had just joined the BJP during the NDA government led by former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee which lasted till 2004.

Suman asks her: How many states are there in India?

Irani: I wouldn’t know. 28?

Second question: In how many states is the BJP government in power?

Irani: I have seen it in three states, I don’t know about the rest.

Suman then tells her that the BJP is in power in seven states.

On Monday, Irani had tweeted: “@RahulGandhi ji, even ‘Chhota Bheem’ knows that commonly asked permission on Apps don’t tantamount to snooping.”

.@RahulGandhi ji, even ‘Chhota Bheem’ knows that commonly asked permission on Apps don’t tantamount to snooping.

— Smriti Z Irani (@smritiirani) March 26, 2018

Her tweet was in response to Rahul Gandhi’s accusation that the NaMo app “secretly records audio, video, contacts” and even tracks the user’s location via GPS.

“He’s the Big Boss who likes to spy on Indians,” Gandhi wrote about PM Narendra Modi.

There has been a sharp escalation in the Twitter exchanges between the two parties ever since the Cambridge Analytica scandal took the world by storm.

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The two parties have not only accused each other of benefitting from the data breach that has severely impacted Facebook’s market, they have also accused each other of using their respective apps on Google playstore to collect personal data.