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The @PMOIndia Twitter handle, which recently live-tweeted a speech by Nita Ambani, has announced that it will, henceforth, also live-tweet scores and updates during Mumbai Indians’ matches.
“For long, people have complained about the @PMOIndia being a very boring one, tweeting only condemnations by the PM and where he is etc etc. We improved it a little, by beginning to live-tweet Modiji’s speeches. We took it a step ahead when we live-tweeted Nitaji’s speech also. Rajeev Shuklaji immediately began to follow us on Twitter, when he heard about it. The next best thing we can do is to live-tweet cricket scores, when Mumbai Indians is playing. We’ll take some of the load off the mipaltan, BCCI, IPL and Cricinfo handles,” a PMO spokesperson told The UnReal Times.
The Prime Minister’s Office, however, added that it had nothing to do with fact that Nita Ambani owned the Mumbai Indians. “Dude, which country are we the Prime Minister’s Office of? So which team should we support? The team of INDIANS? Right?! Doesn’t matter who the owner is,” the spokesperson added.
While the matter has provoked howls of outrage among the Congress and the Aam Aadmi parties, the PMO, did, however, receive ‘qualified support’ from the quarters of Shashi Tharoor. “I see nothing wrong in it. It is a national handle and not the property of any party. When a national handle which has, hitherto, been vapid, is now trying to make its tweets more interesting, I don’t see why we shouldn’t be supporting it!” the Thiruvananthapuram MP tweeted.
(With Inputs from UnReal Mama)