 "Now Sonam Kapoor, Abhijeet fight over Shobhaa De's disparaging Olympics tweet")
The Shobhaa De Olympics tweet backlash has led to another Twitter fight, between actor Sonam Kapoor and musician Abhijeet Bhattacharya this time. To rewind a little, writer Shobhaa De found herself at the receiving end of Twitterati’s fury after she posted criticisms about the Indian contingent’s performance at the 2016 Summer olympics in Rio.
Several sportspersons — including Abhinav Bindra and Jwala Gutta — responded to De’s tweet, pointing out that it was unfair and ill-considered. [caption id=“attachment_2946680” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]
Sonam Kapoor and Abhijeet Bhattacharya got into a Twitter fight over the latter’s remarks regarding Shobhaa De[/caption]
Shobhaa De gets sporting lesson from Abhinav Bindra and co for Twitter dig at Indian Olympians
Other social media users weren’t as polite and went on to troll De about her age, occupation, appearance and of course, her tweet itself. A picture she posted on Instagram had comments that called her ‘b***h’, ‘wily, old c**t’ — and those are among the politer names.
Shobhaa De trolls Indian contingent at Olympics; gets trolled by Twitterati in return
Among this barrage of critics was singer Abhijeet Bhattacharya, who was in the news in the first week of July for
abusive tweets against journalist Swati Chaturvedi
, who then lodged a complaint against him with the Mumbai Police. Bhattacharya had tweeted about the murder of Chennai techie S Swathi, and called it a case of ’love jihad’, following which he got into the Twitter altercation with Chaturvedi. On Tuesday, Abhijeet tweeted in response to Shobhaa De’s message:
Support for De came from actor Sonam Kapoor, who tweeted:
This in turn, prompted further comment from Abhijeet, who said:
Sonam first contented herself with sharing a few emoticons, then explained her stance with another tweet, and a re-tweet from comedian Rohan Joshi:
Bhattacharya in the meantime, continued to trade tweets with like-minded followers on the micro-blogging platform: