'Aati hai hansee': Ramdas Athawale's verse on Shashi Tharoor after Twitter fight

Ramdas Athawale's verse on Shashi Tharoor comes a day after they engaged in a Twitter fight over Nirmala Sitharaman's Lok Sabha speech when Athawale corrected Shashi Tharoor's typos.

Union minister Ramdas Athawale who is also famous for his slogans like 'Go Corona Go' and 'No Corona' has now come up with a verse on Congress leader Shashi Tharoor, a day after Athawale corrected Tharoor's typos on Twitter, much to the delight of social media users. "Jinki English maine dekhi Twitter pe, unka naam hain Shashi. Aur unka bayaan dekh kar, mujhe aati hai hansee (The person whose English I saw on Twitter is Shashi and his statement makes me laugh)," Athawale said on Friday at a press conference in Nagpur.

Union minister Ramdas Athawale is well known for his verses like ‘Go corona, go'. 

Shashi Tharoor points out Ramdas Athawale's face; minister his typo. A JNU twist

Social media users have shared the video.

Athawale also said that the expressions that Tharoor termed as "stunned and incredulous" are his happy expressions. He was very happy with Budget 2022, he said.

The controversy began on Thursday night when Shashi Tharoor posted a photo of wide-eyed Ramdas Athawale listening to finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman's reply to Budget in the Lok Sabha during which the opposition stages a walkout. Criticising the speech, Shashi Tharoor said even the treasury benches could not believe what Nirmala Sitharaman was claiming about the economy and Budget and he presented Athawale's "surprised" face as a case in point. In his tweet, however, Shashi Tharoor made some typos, which Ramdas Athawale corrected and said there is a saying that one is bound to make mistakes while making unnecessary claims and statements.

Shashi Tharoor did not back down and, accepting the typos which he said were because of his careless typing, he asked Athawale to provide tuition to "someone at JNU", in a veiled jibe to JNU's new VC Shantishree Pandit.