Congress social media head Divya Spandana seems to have deleted her Twitter account. Spandana had become a household name after solidifying Indian National Congress's social media presence at a time when the BJP vastly outpaced their opponents in the cyber space. In her last tweet, Spandana congratulated the new Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. She wrote, “Congratulations @nsitharaman on taking charge of a portfolio that was only last held by another woman, Indira Gandhiji in 1970—makes us womenfolk proud! The GDP not looking great, I’m sure you will do your best to revive the economy. You have our support. Best wishes.” Spandana denied speculations that she had split ways with the party. She told ANI: "Your sources are wrong".
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In November, Spandana had sparked a controversy tweeted a controversial comment along with a picture of Prime Minister Narendra Modi standing next to Sardar Patel's 'Statue of Unity', evoking a sharp reaction from the BJP which slammed it as the "language of arrogance". Spandana tweeted a picture of Modi standing next to Sardar Patel's 182-metre-tall statue in Gujarat, which was unveiled on Wednesday, with the comment: "Is that bird dropping?" In May, she won a defamation suit against Asianet and its subsidiary Suvarna. The two parties have been ordered to pay damages of Rs 50 lakh to Spandana.
Once a popular actor, Spandana made her debut in a Kannada film, Abhi, in 2003. After that, she acted in many Tamil, Telugu and Kannada films, with most of them doing well at the box office.
Ramya was the name given to Spandana by Parvathamma, wife of Kannada cine icon Rajkumar, on the sets of Abhi, in which her son Puneeth Rajkumar played the male lead. Spandana entered politics in 2012. She won the byelection from Mandya Lok Sabha constituency in Karnataka in 2013 but lost the 2014 general elections from the same constituency.
A two-time winner of the Filmfare Award, Spandana was selected to lead the social media cell of the Congress in May 2017. She replaced Deepender Hooda, son of former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda.
