"Somebody has opened a 'parody account' on Twitter in my name and attributed to me a remark I never made," Aiyar said in a statement.
"As some of the respondents to the remark appear not to have understood that it was from a 'parody account', this is to clarify that I do not have a twitter account and have never had one," the 75-year-old former Rajya Sabha member asserted.
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