Senior journalist trolled for remark on Rabri Devi's tweet

A senior journalist associated with a national Hindi news channel was heavily trolled, after a snide remark on a tweet by former Bihar chief minister Rabri Devi in which she had taken a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi's recent interview to Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar.

"Modi was in Muzaffarpur yesterday where people expressed curiosity about the way he ate litchis the fruit the town is famous for. They had already known how he savoured mangoes and wondered whether he enjoyed litchis by biting the fruit or sucking on it or while standing near a wash basin," Rabri Devi had tweeted in Hindi on Wednesday.

The RJD national vice-president's comment came a day after Modi's rally in the north Bihar town.

"The PM did not reply since the question had not been posed by a hero or a heroine. Moreover, since the question was not pre-planned and choreographed, he could not come with a reply," she added, in an obvious dig at the nearly hour-long "non-political" interview of Modi by Kumar.

The journalist in question quickly came out with a riposte on the micro-blogging site, saying, "So, Rabri Devi, too, tweets. Somebody should challenge her to just pronounce the word twitter thrice non-stop."
Young Congress spokesperson Pankhuri Pathak, too, tweeted, saying, "Only the one who has the knowledge of Brahma deserves to be called a Brahmin... what can be expected from those who have mortgaged their pen to forces of capitalism. If somebody asks him to use similar words for those in power, his limbs will freeze."
"If you are so fond of tweeting, try doing so about the educational qualification of Smriti (Irani) ji."