PMO deleted tweet describing Chaudhary Chhotu Ram as 'messiah of Jats'

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has had a significant impact on social media, particularly Twitter, since the run up to the 2014 Lok Sabha polls. He has a dedicated social media team that has rarely taken a misstep. Once such rare occurrence took place on Tuesday after the PM unveiled a statue of Chaudhary Chhotu Ram, an iconic pre-independence farmer leader of undivided Punjab. The PM tweeted he was honoured to unveil the statue of a “farmer leader” who was “a messiah of the Jats”. Congress spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala lost no time and said the PM’s description of Ram as