‘Fake’ video triggers a twitter war

An allegation that a close associate of HRD Minister Smriti Irani had circulated some videos of JNU students, which were later found to be doctored, became the centre of a raging war on Twitter. The HRD Minister’s office also distanced themselves from the person saying she was not associated with them in any official capacity. While there were many tweets alleging that the minister’s associate had circulated the doctored videos, there was an equally vociferous group defending her saying she was being unfairly targeted by some parties in order to hit at the HRD minister. When contacted, HRD ministry officials said the person, was not associated with them in any official capacity.