Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi's official Twitter account was hacked on Wednesday night and some expletives-laden tweets were posted.
Confirming the development, his office said efforts were being made to rectify the problem.
"Rahul Gandhi's Twitter handle has been hacked. We will file a complaint with the Cyber Cell of city police," Pranav Jha, media coordinator, Congress, said.
Rahul's account was hacked around 8.45 pm and some messages with profanities were put out, but these were deleted soon thereafter.
The hackers also removed the Congress leader's profile picture and changed the title of the account from @OfficeOfRG to an abusive one.
One of the illegal posts had abusive language like "My family is a bunch of corrupt....(expletives) retarded... (expletives)".
Congress party condemned the hacking and said such tactics would not deter Rahul Gandhi from raising people's issues.
"Such unscrupulous,unethical&roguish conduct of venal trolls 2hack @OfficeOfRG reflects disturbing insecurities of prevalent fascist culture (sic)," Congress spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala said in a tweet.
Pre-meditated hacking of @OfficeOfRG smacks of a sinister conspiracy to abuse & intimidate.It stregthens our resolve to fight for the Nation
— Randeep S Surjewala (@rssurjewala) November 30, 2016
Such unscrupulous,unethical&roguish conduct of venal trolls 2hack @OfficeOfRG reflects disturbing insecurities of prevalent fascist culture
— Randeep S Surjewala (@rssurjewala) November 30, 2016
As expected, the hacking story gave a field day for Twittarati while trollers took no time to catch the opportunity.
A leader who cdn't take back the control of his twitter account in 20 mnts is thnking to control the whole country's affairs. #RahulGandhi
— Kumar Ravi (@kr_ravi) November 30, 2016
After his twitter account was hacked RaGa went to ATM to change his twitter password. #RahulGandhi
— Sweet Sonali (@SweetestSonali) November 30, 2016
#RahulGandhi : Modi has 25Million followers I have only 1.2 M .. I need 26 M
— Unfair & Lowly (@UnfairAndLowly) November 30, 2016
Social media Agency: Ok sir.. ho jaayega #RaGaHacked
Hello Kejriwal ji, my account has been hacked, can you blame it on #demonetisation? #RahulGandhi pic.twitter.com/QDWZaNVYxk
— The Viral Fever (@TheViralFever) November 30, 2016
#PMModi asked asked Parliamenatrians to declare their account details, #RahulGandhi gave his twitter account details. @OfficeOfRG hacked.
— Pankaj Kumar (@pankajssit) November 30, 2016
When #RahulGandhi's twitter account hacked. pic.twitter.com/Tn1n2Jx6PZ
— Godman Chikna (@Madan_Chikna) November 30, 2016
