New Delhi: A social media war has erupted between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress, with the principal opposition party offering a sardonic take on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s intelligence by calling him a “ bael buddhi ” (low IQ), countering his “ balak buddhi ” jibe at Leader of the Opposition (LoP) Rahul Gandhi. The Congress’s social media managers asserted that it was time to pay the BJP back “in its own coin”, saying it was the ruling party that has relentlessly targeted Gandhi, hurling many epithets, the latest of which — Balak Buddhi (immature mind) — came from Modi himself in the Lok Sabha. Congress social media head Supriya Shrinate said the party felt the need to target Modi in such a fashion because the Amit Malviya-led BJP information technology cell, popularly known as the IT cell, had been making personal attacks on Gandhi with disparaging terms.
Apart from X (formerly Twitter), the Congress has also been making these posts on Instagram. Even as the Congress goes after Modi, Gandhi advised his own party colleagues Friday to “refrain from using derogatory language and being nasty towards Smt. Smriti Irani or any other leader for that matter.
” Gandhi posted on X, “Winning and losing happen in life...
Humiliating and insulting people is a sign of weakness, not strength”. Ever since losing the Amethi Lok Sabha constituency to the Congress’s Kishori Lal Sharma, Irani has been at the receiving end of social media trolli.