Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi’s official Twitter account was tonight hacked and some expletives-laden tweets were posted.
Confirming the development, his office said efforts were being made to rectify the problem.
Gandhi’s account was hacked around 8.45 PM and some messages with profanities were put out, but these were deleted soon thereafter.
The name of the verified twitter handle “@OfficeOfRG” was also changed.
Here are the tweet posted by the hacker.
Hashtag #RahulGandhi became the top Twitter trend in no time with his supporters strongly condemning the hacking exercise.
The party’s head of communications, Randeep Surjewala, tweeted, ”
Such unscrupulous,unethical&roguish conduct of venal trolls 2hack @OfficeOfRG reflects disturbing insecurities of prevalent fascist culture.”
Such unscrupulous,unethical&roguish conduct of venal trolls 2hack @OfficeOfRG reflects disturbing insecurities of prevalent fascist culture
— Randeep Singh Surjewala (@rssurjewala) November 30, 2016