#LionessSonia: Cong uses Sonia’s outburst to fuel anti-PM Twitter campaign

Congress started #LionessSonia on Twitter to cash on Gandhi’s poll speech in Kerala where she spoke about her life as an Indian.

Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s emotional outburst on Monday has become the party’s latest weapon to attack the BJP on social media.

Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s emotional outburst on Monday has become the party’s latest weapon to attack the BJP on social media. (Photo by Vipin Kumar / Hindustan Times) (Hindustan Times)

Congress started #LionessSonia on Twitter to cash on Gandhi’s poll speech in Kerala where she spoke about her life as an Indian.

During a debate on calling attention motion on the VVIP chopper deal in the Lok Sabha last week, Congress party’s chief whip Jyotiraditya Scindia had described her as a “sherni (lioness)” of whom the BJP is scared.

“I came here i n 1968 as daughter-in-law of late Indira Gandhi. I lived my whole life as an Indian. Till my last breath I will be here and my ashes will mingle with this land,” she had said in Thiruvananthapuram on Monday, accusing the RSS-BJP of hounding her for 48 years about her birth in Italy.

As both supporters and baiters hit the #LionessSonia, it quickly became one of the top trending subjects on the micro-blogging website.

“Elected MP, Party Prez, Chairperson UPA, NAC Abused as “Remote Control”?? Then WHAT is Unelected RSS ?,” wrote a supporter.

Her critics also used the #LionessSonia to take potshots at the Congress and its president.

“Yet another ‘promoted’ trend. When will these parties learn these don’t mean anything except bills from their agencies,” read a tweet.