Daijiworld Media Network – Bengaluru (RJP)

Bengaluru, Feb 28: Congress Legislative Party leader Siddaramaiah's twitter handle was hacked on Wednesday, February 27.

Siddaramaiah's official Twitter handle @siddaramaiah had a rather strange tweet stating: "Today India! Air Force has attacked on BAGALAKOT. Deep codomienses (sic) to the terrorists families. May their souls rest in piece (sic).

This was tweeted at 5.15 pm and was retweeted once. The former chief minister was trolled on social media for his spelling bloopers of Bagalkot instead of Balakot and expressing condolences for the terrorists' family.

Incidentally Siddaramaiah is an MLA from Badami constituency in Bagalkot district.

The hacking comes following Indian air strikes in Pakistan.

When Siddaramaiah came to know this, he immediately tweeted the image with Fake News watermarks: "Morphed tweets with my official handle are being circulated in social media by few unethical users. This image has a logo of a group 'Troll Sisyandru'. I urge @BlrCityPolice to take immediate action against those involved &I also request Shri. @MBPatil to look into the issue.”

Screenhot of hacked Twitter account

Siddaramaiah’s media coordinator, Prabhakar said, “The leader is in Vijayapura, and when he returns to Bengaluru, he will file a complaint with the city police.”

Police here said that they are unaware of the tweet and that they are yet to get a police complaint from Siddaramaiah's office.