When Rajdeep Sardesai isn’t too busy displaying his casual casteism, he seems to be keeping himself occupied with copying tweets. Scientist and columnist Anand Ranganathan, who is also known for his legendary Twitter threads, among other things, has compiled a thread on Sardesai, calling out his hypocrisy and lies.
In the same thread, Ranganathan also points out a few times where Sardesai has voiced views quite similar to the Twitter users who had tweeted something similar/same just before Sardesai did.
Mamma mia! Someone needs to stop Michelangelo. Now he climbs in through the bathroom window and sneaks off with a painting, in full view of the unknown artist roosting meditatively on the WC. Brazen. (h/t @5833620) pic.twitter.com/jyIPlxqqgI
— Anand Ranganathan (@ARanganathan72) May 19, 2018
As seen above, economist and writer Sanjeev Sanyal tweeted about Tata buying Bhushan Steel, in an almost similar style, Sardesai tweeted the same two hours later. Later, while commenting on Karnataka elections, when the allegations of horse-trading between the BJP and the Congress were rife Sardesai tweeted how the Raj Bhavan in Bangalore was built by Aga Ali Asker, who was a horse-trader. His trivia came within five minutes of a tweet by a Twitter user V.Vasudevan.
Similarly, when Croatia won the second place in football world cup in 2018, Rajdeep’s tweet comparing and contrasting the football federation heads of India and Croatia and the population between the two countries, was very very similar to tweets by other popular handles.
Now, Twitter users are quite sensitive about plagiarism and there have been many fights where popular Twitter accounts accused other popular Twitter accounts of ‘stealing’ tweets.
Yesterday, when Rajdeep Sardesai tweeted on the ongoing CBI feud, an almost similar tweet was tweeted by Congress spokesperson Randeep Surjewala an hour later.
CBI director is packed off at 1 am/2am; next day, 4 alleged IB operatives detained outside his house.. this is straight out of a page turning thriller where crime meets political intrigue.. Gol maal hai bhai sab golmaal hai! #CBI
— Rajdeep Sardesai (@sardesairajdeep) October 25, 2018
Sardesai’s tweet came at 9:54 am, which was followed by Surjewala’s similar tweet exactly an hour later at 10:54 am.
CBI director is illegally removed at 2 AM. Today, 4 IB operatives caught snooping outside his house.
This is straight out of a page turning thriller where crime meets political intrigue….
गोल-माल है भाई, सब गोल-माल है!!!https://t.co/4BqSXwCJo7
— Randeep Singh Surjewala (@rssurjewala) October 25, 2018
Sardesai, however, got a little agitated when he was accused of acting almost like Congress’ spokesperson.
Well, my tweet is my own based on the facts as I see them (9.54 am) . If someone from Cong copies it, then they must be held accountable for blatant plagiarism! @rssurjewala https://t.co/7OWINBDzMM
— Rajdeep Sardesai (@sardesairajdeep) October 25, 2018
A little too agitated.
Mr @amitmalviya to you and all political party IT cells and spokespersons. I write my own tweets based on my own views: i question all parties. If someone copy pastes my tweet, please ask questions of them. Don’t bring me down to the snake pit level you folks are in please. ? https://t.co/1eYATMchN4
— Rajdeep Sardesai (@sardesairajdeep) October 26, 2018
However, fed up with the ‘hit jobs’ against him, Sardesai has now threatened to quit Twitter like his colleague, Ravish Kumar.
I am used to these ‘hit jobs’. No option left but to soon quit Twitter like @ravishndtv .. https://t.co/IhnRzpSchq
— Rajdeep Sardesai (@sardesairajdeep) October 26, 2018
Except, that he had pulled the same stunt in April/May 2016 when he had deactivated his account for a while after sending abusive messages to Twitter users after a meltdown.
