Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal officially does not have any portfolio allotted to him, although he is the Chief Minister of Delhi. The common joke was that he had been handed the Twitter ministry, on which his job was trolling opponents. Earlier this year we saw how Kejriwal had tried to troll Modi, but social media trolled him instead. Kejriwal tries to troll many political leaders, but rarely do they pay any attention to him. But this time it was different.
It all started with Capt Amrinder Singh of the Congress, tweeting this:
https://twitter.com/capt_amarinder/status/790158476609662976
To this, Troll CM Kejriwal had this reply:
https://twitter.com/ArvindKejriwal/status/790189115891290112
Most politicians back-off at this stage, since the adage goes that wrestling with a pig will make you dirty, and the pig happy. But Captain was in the mood for a “dangal”. He promptly questioned Kejriwal on his tall claims of jailing many people if he came to power:
https://twitter.com/capt_amarinder/status/790213096556072960
https://twitter.com/capt_amarinder/status/790213258640760832
A severely embarrassed Kejriwal sidestepped this question altogether, but he had to have the last word, hence diverted the topic to something else:
https://twitter.com/ArvindKejriwal/status/790382239250952192
But Captain was not about to give up:
https://twitter.com/capt_amarinder/status/790413283505287168
And with this next tweet, he challenged Kejriwal for an open debate:
https://twitter.com/capt_amarinder/status/790468785723453440
And Kejriwal accepted the challenge! But with conditions!! He didn’t accept the debate challenge for himself, but on behalf of four of his party members. He claimed that any of the four would come to debate with Captain!
https://twitter.com/ArvindKejriwal/status/790482593338658816
And that was the full toss Captain was waiting for:
https://twitter.com/capt_amarinder/status/790486076938788864
No sooner did this happen, Twitter exploded and exposed Kejriwal’s dual standards. In his pre-CM days, Kejriwal would keep challenging opponents to debates and claim victory when they refused to come:
https://twitter.com/ArvindKejriwal/status/557373338314485760
https://twitter.com/ArvindKejriwal/status/557830446353231872
https://twitter.com/ArvindKejriwal/status/557815002590355456
https://twitter.com/ArvindKejriwal/status/350287182797357057
https://twitter.com/ArvindKejriwal/status/387860049827463168
https://twitter.com/ArvindKejriwal/status/259837274324348928
Finally Kejriwal replied, but by that time the damage was done:
https://twitter.com/ArvindKejriwal/status/790496287149871104
Even after this tweet, people reminded him of his multiple logical fallacies:
https://twitter.com/Alllahdin/status/790497190384766976
https://twitter.com/manichejain/status/790498908090753024
https://twitter.com/DarrKeAage/status/790498694856486912
And even as this was unravelling, the Indian Express came to Kejriwal’s rescue to spin the episode as “Kejriwal accepts challenge”:
https://twitter.com/IndianExpress/status/790502515510874112
(Tweets updated till time of posting)
Update: Captain has hit back:
https://twitter.com/capt_amarinder/status/790507510423625732
https://twitter.com/ArvindKejriwal/status/790513920024784896
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https://twitter.com/capt_amarinder/status/790522194807750656
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