Union Minister Shashi Tharoor and Sunanda Pushkar have issued a joint statement over the Twitter controversy. The two have in a joint statement in Twitter revealed they are happily married and everythibng is fine from their end.
'We are distressed by the unseemly controversy that has arisen about some unauthorised tweets from our Twitter accounts. Various distorted accounts of comments allegedly made by Sunanda have appeared in the press. It appears that some personal and private comments responding to these unauthorised tweets -- comments that were not intended for publication -- have been misrepresented and led to some erroneous conclusions,' the statement said.
The Twitter handle of Shashi Tharoor, one of the most popular Indian politicians on the networking site, was hacked and some wacky tweets were sent from it to a Pakistani journalist.
The tweets instantly created a buzz on social media websites.
'Sorry folks, my @Twitter account has been hacked & will be temporarily deactivated. Bear with me while we solve this,'
he told his followers in his page.
Most of the tweets from his hacked account were addressed to Mehr Tarar, who was taken aback by the flurry of messages
from the minister's handle.
'You unfollowed me. You don't RT me and you don't answer me on twitter. I can live with your favourites. I have your
personal validation,' one of the hacked tweets read, which went on to add, 'Have your personal validation of my words, I
don't need any public one. For that I will wait until we are together publically really mehr.'
As the tweets went viral on the social media, Tarar responded, 'Okay. What's going on? Who's tweeting to me? I had
an 'affair' with Shashi Tharoor and he's tweeting to me? How does that work?'
'I know Shashi T& respect him greatly. Hv tweeted/written abt it openly.Feel awful abt wht's being tweeted. Maybe
@TwitterIndia shld check?' she said in another tweet.
Another of the hacked tweets read, 'Shashi. I'm not crying any more. I'm not falling to pieces. I'm more lucid than ever.
How little I knew you became visible to me.@mehrtarar.'
The messages, with wacky mention of a romantic link between Tarar and Tharoor, were followed by a tweet
purportedly from the minister's wife Sunanda Pushkar's account.
'I am sending @mehrtars bbbm msgs to the works to see what a horrible woman she is and how she iis stalking my husband,'
a tweet said.
Tharoor's twitter page shows that he has 2.02 million followers. PTI
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