On Friday, The Centre found itself in deep waters, after the Twitter page of Digital India praised a poem calling for the killing of Kashmiris by the Indian Army.
The tweet read a poem urging high-handedness by the Army, with the caption ‘Heights of #Patriotism’. It was soon deleted, but managed to kick up a storm online.
One of the lines of the poem read as – Issued in public interest; all who love their lives; should quietly come to the city square; sing the national anthem; and not throw any tantrums here.
One of the lines read as – The bullets have just started, don’t say later you didn’t get a warning, you will have to say Vande Mantaram every morning. While another lines read as – Thrash them all you want, army; break their bones; If Mehbooba calls the police; Modi will handle it.
IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, regretting the incident, told Indian Express that the contents of the tweet do not represent the views of the Digital India, Government of India or IT ministry. Prasad added that an immediate enquiry has been ordered into the incident and the concerned employee has been suspended.
CEO of National e-Governance – S Radha Chauhan said that the concerned employee had wanted to post the poem on his personal page, but by mistake he had posted the poem on the Digital India page.
The tweet came into light after AAP leader Ankit Lal pointed it out in Twitter.
Ankit Lal tweeted “Govt verified handle @_DigitalIndia finds poem calling fr mass murder of Kashmiris “Height of Patriotism”#Shame!”
.@rsprasad apologises fr @_DigitalIndia goof up.
Person has been suspended.
More of such examples need to be set.https://t.co/RLMwoB3AIp
— Ankit Lal (@AnkitLal) September 9, 2016
Govt verified handle @_DigitalIndia finds poem calling fr mass murder of Kashmiris “Height of Patriotism”#Shame! pic.twitter.com/3c2ANynS82
— Ankit Lal (@AnkitLal) September 8, 2016
In a similar incident in last week, All India Radio was caught in a raging row after one of its employees posted comments of Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on its official Twitter page.
