Ramya tweets trouble for Congress, yet again

Aditi Tandon
Tribune News Service 
New Delhi, November 1

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Congress social media head Divya Spandana Ramya doesn’t appear to be listening to her boss and party chief Rahul Gandhi. After courting controversies in the past for her distasteful tweets, she again tweeted fresh trouble for the party on Thursday.

Is that bird dropping?

— Divya Spandana/Ramya (@divyaspandana)

Posting a picture of Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the grand Sardar Patel statue inaugurated yesterday, Ramya wrote, “Is that a bird dropping?” The tweet was intact on Ramya’s Twitter timeline much after it triggered a storm on the microblogging website with the pro-right handles attacking the Congress social media chief viciously.

The Congress had no clarification to offer and said Ramya operates independently. There has been severe anxiety within the Congress over the manner and style of Ramya on Twitter. 

She had once posted a Rakhi Sawant video online with Sawant making disparaging remarks about the PM.  Subsequently too the tone of Ramya’s tweets has been a matter of consternation within the Congress with several senior leaders conveying their angst to Gandhi.

Gandhi feels it may prove counterproductive to divest Ramya of her charge in an election season, though he is not known to condone below the belt language.

Privately, Congress leaders wonder why Ramya doesn’t get that message. “She wants herself to be the story,” says a Congress Leader. 

Gandhi personally has always urged party people to maintain the decorum of language in political attacks though of late he has also surprised his ranks with “PM chor hai” allegation over the Rafale deal.

As for Ramya, the former MP from Karnataka seems to be enjoying Gandhi’s confidence as of now.

She had created a flutter a fortnight ago by deleting her social media profile forcing the Congress to clarify that she hadn’t resigned as the department chief.