Himanta Biswa Sharma has less one tenth of Rahul Gandhi’s Twitter followers, but his reply to Rahul Gandhi has already got more traction than Rahul Gandhi’s tweet!
In the morning, when Rahul tweeted a video of him goofing around with his pet dog, least would have he expected that it would end on such a sour note.
Did the dog ring a bell? Some months ago, we had heard a lot about the dog. Himanta Biswa Sarma had expressed his frustration saying when he went to meet Rahul to discuss important political matters, Rahul was too busy feeding his dog to pay attention to him. Himanta replied within minutes, perhaps the dog is still fresh in his memory!
Rahul curiously has a strange habit of tweeting from his office handle @OfficeOfRG and sometimes tweets in first person and sometimes in third person. There are also reports that his social media activity is boosted by bots from Kazakhstan, Russia and Indonesia.
In this case, it seems even the bots have been over-powered by the power of Himanta Biswa Sarma’s come-back!