Congress leader denies 'when a big tree falls' tweet, claims account hacked

Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Saturday denied that he used the phrase when a big tree falls ground shakes along a photograph of Rajiv Gandhi on his Twitter handle while paying tribute to the former prime minister on his death anniversaryChowdhury the leader of the Congress party in the Lok Sabha claimed his account was hacked as he was delivering a speech at a party office in West Bengals Murshidabad district when the social media post was madeThe post which was seen on Chowdhurys Twitter handle on Saturday morning was removed soon after controversy sparkedBJP leaders were quick to grab the opportunity of using screenshots of the tweet to attack the Congress leadership The partys IT cell head Amit Malviya said Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury has decided to call a spade a spade Gandhis be damnedLater Chowdhury wrote on Twitter The tweet against my name in the Twitter account has nothing to do with my own observation A malicious campaign is propagated by those forces inimical to meAn FIR has been lodged at the South Avenue Police Station in New Delhi he saidIn the police complaint the Congress leader said Today an unscrupulous biased and a content tainted with absolute malafide was posted on my Twitter account when I was busy with the party programme on the dais and did not carry my mobile phoneThe content posted smacks of malice and I believe that my Twitter account had been hacked by some wrongdoers for the reasons best known to themI hereby urge your goodself to take immediate cognizance of this instant complaint and please enquire and seal the IP address and take appropriate action of cybercrime at the earliest in occurrence with law and oblige he saidChowdhury the West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee president said it was a cybercrimeWhen contacted he told PTI It was nothing but a cybercrime I was delivering a speech in my party office in Baharampur when the tweet was posted The media was there This is nothing but an attempt to malign me and my partyThe when a big tree falls ground shakes quote was reportedly made by Rajiv Gandhi after Indira Gandhis assassination and the antisikh riots that gripped the national capital and many parts of the country thereafterRajiv Gandhi was assassinated in 1991 by terrorist organisation Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam LTTE in Tamil Nadu where he was on an election campaignThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever