New Delhi: Monday is World Youth Skills Day and the Skill India Twitter handle needs to improve its own skills — beginning with grammar lessons. Here is one among several (now deleted) tweets containing numerous grammatical and spelling errors. See how many you can spot.
https://twitter.com/MSDESkillIndia/status/1150273543923326982?s=20
Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu is nothing if not persistent. On Sunday, he shared his letter to former Congress president Rahul Gandhi in which he announced his resignation from the Punjab government. On Monday, he tweeted about sending it to Punjab chief minister Capt. Amarinder Singh. We got it the first time, sir.
Today I have sent my resignation to the Chief Minister Punjab, has been delivered at his official residence…
— Navjot Singh Sidhu (@sherryontopp) July 15, 2019
National Conference chief Omar Abdullah has some fun at the expense of the crumbling Congress party after Navjot Singh Sidhu’s resignation.
The one state where the Congress is well placed & even here they can’t help themselves. Oh to be in the BJP right now with the principal opposition party imploding all around them. https://t.co/lz0ptkjtms
— Omar Abdullah (@OmarAbdullah) July 14, 2019
And from Punjab to Karnataka, Congress continues to make headlines: deputy chief minister Dr. G. Parameshwara’s long list of allegations against the BJP really reflect the battles of the party.
Dear @BJP4Karnataka, people have not forgotten your golibar on farmers, the republic of Ballari, sitting CM & half a dozen ministers imprisoned for bribes and selling the soul of Karnataka. #OperationKamala is your only legacy & a shameful legacy at that. Karma is unforgiving.
— Dr. G Parameshwara (@DrParameshwara) July 14, 2019
As if Congress doesn’t have enough problems already, journalist Barkha Dutt called out party leader Kapil Sibal and news channel Tiranga TV — where Dutt works — for sacking employees without a six-month payout and failing to pay salaries in over a year.
An appalling situation in @NewsHtn promoted by @KapilSibal & his wife, where more than 200 employees have had equipment confiscated and face sackings without even a 6 month pay out. Man who acts holier than though in public has treated journalists in a hideous way
— barkha dutt (@BDUTT) July 15, 2019
Tweets about the cricket World Cup finals hit Twitter for a mighty six. Cricketer-turned BJP MP Gautam Gambhir, an expert commentator for Star Sports, was decidedly unhappy with the ICC rule that in the event of a tie in the super over, the team with the most boundaries throughout the match would win the match. That crowned England King of Lord’s.
Don't understand how the game of such proportions, the #CWC19Final, is finally decided on who scored the most boundaries. A ridiculous rule @ICC. Should have been a tie. I want to congratulate both @BLACKCAPS & @englandcricket on playing out a nail biting Final. Both winners imo.
— Gautam Gambhir (@GautamGambhir) July 14, 2019
And while the English celebrate their World Cup victory, at least one politician sees Brexit in even sports. Read Conservative MP Jacob Rees Morgan’s gratuitous reference to the EU.
https://twitter.com/Jacob_Rees_Mogg/status/1150475669677268992?s=20
Shiv Sena’s Priyanka Chaturvedi is never one to duck a controversy —here she is on an issue which began with a two-year-old DailyO article, shared by actor and activist Swara Bhaskar that claimed the Mughals contributed in making India wealthier instead of looting it as is widely believed. She was trolled viciously and it sparked a Twitter-wide debate.
I will forever appreciate the syncretic culture of India and how Mughal era is part of India’s fascinating history and the art&culture that they introduced India too. But to say they made India rich is a false narrative & white washing a lot of history.
— Priyanka Chaturvedi (@priyankac19) July 14, 2019
Gopal Bhargava, BJP leader and leader of opposition in Madhya Pradesh, made a bizarre equivalence between rise in female infanticide and abortions with Sakshi Misra’s police protection plea. Misra is the daughter of BJP MLA Rajesh Kumar Misra who made a viral video asking for police protection from her father after marrying a Dalit man.
मेरा मानना है कि ऐसी खबरों से अब कन्या भ्रूण हत्या की घटनाएं देश मे अप्रत्याशित रूप से बढ़ेगी तथा महिला पुरुष के लिंगानुपात में भारी अंतर आएगा जो हमे अगले तीन वर्षों में सामाजिक सर्वे में स्पष्ट रूप से दिखेगा
नर्सिंग होम एवं निजी अस्पतालों में गर्भपात का गौरखधंधा खूब फलेगा फूलेगा— Gopal Bhargava (@bhargav_gopal) July 14, 2019
US President Donald Trump is in news again, this time for attacking minority Democrat Congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and Ayanna Pressley. His tweet asking such people to “go back” to their countries of origins was also incorrect since three out of these four Congresswomen were born in the United States.
Many replied in outrage to this thread, but Hawaiian Senator Brian Schatz had the best retort.
….and the many terrible things they say about the United States must not be allowed to go unchallenged. If the Democrat Party wants to continue to condone such disgraceful behavior, then we look even more forward to seeing you at the ballot box in 2020!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 15, 2019
You misspelled racist. https://t.co/Qja8Z4vsi1
— Brian Schatz (@brianschatz) July 14, 2019
With inputs from Pia Krishnankutty