PMO tweet describing Chhotu Ram as ‘Messiah of Jats’ removed after Surjewala’s objection

Sushil Manav

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, October 10

A tweet by PMO India on Tuesday from the twitter handle @PMOIndia attributed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi in which Sir Chhotu Ram was described as ‘Messiah of Jats’ was deleted on Wednesday after Congress leader Randeep Singh Surjewala took objection to it.

In the tweet written in Hindi, the PM was attributed having said that “It is my good fortune that I got the opportunity to unveil such a huge and attractive statue of farmers’ voice, Messiah of Jats and Rahbar-e-Azam Choudhary Chhotu Ram.”

Tagging a screen shot of the PMO’s tweet, Randeep Surjewala, in-charge of AICC’s media cell, replied through a tweet that the PM had made an effort to confine Rahbar-e-Azam Sir Chhotu Ram to a particular caste.

In the tweet written in Hindi, Surjewala further said that this was a perfect example of the PM’s constricted mindset of vote-bank politics which does not allow him to come out of issues like caste and religion.

“Sir Chhotu Ram was a great leader and peasantry from across the country considered him as their Messiah,” he added.

Tweeting today again, Surjewala said that tweet has been removed by @PMOIndia, but the “mindset of dividing people on castes and creed for votes cannot be removed by merely deleting a tweet”.

Demanding an apology from Modi, Surjewala said that farmers getting injustice every day under this regime cannot be pleased by ‘jumlas’ alone.