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Indian Twitterati do a mock Chidambaram

FP Editors June 8, 2011, 19:22:22 IST

Inspired by Home Minister P Chidambaram’s allegations against the RSS backing the anti-graft movement, the hashtag #talklikechidambaram was born on Twitter. The logic being to blame everything that goes wrong on RSS. Now it is one of the top trending tags on Twitter. Take a look at some of our favourite ’talk like Chidambaram’ quotes.

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Indian Twitterati do a mock Chidambaram

When Home Minister P  Chidambaram attacked Anna Hazare and his anti-graft movement likening them to the RSS, he probably never expected to become a social media trend. Yet it seems that everyone wants to talk like him now. [caption id=“attachment_22513” align=“alignleft” width=“380” caption=“Home minister P Chidambaram alleged that the anti-corruption movement was backed by the RSS. AFP”] [/caption]Inspired by his allegation, the hashtag #talklikechidambaram was born. The premise was simple — blame the RSS for everything. Such as for instance brain drain, bad stomachs, Body odour… the list went on. Soon it seemed that almost every Indian with a twitter account had something to say. Faced with such rich pickings it was impossible for us to curate a list with every tweet we liked. So we picked out our top ten “talk like Chidambaram” quotes. Enjoy!

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