Payal Rohatgi’s Infamous Tweet On Priyanka Gandhi, Sunny Leone Sparks Outrage

Payal Rohatgi? The name does not ring a bell. Her Twitter handle reads Payal Rohatgi & Team. Well, she may be quite an anonymous individual or a social media user. She has however, left large segments of Twitterati fuming with her comments on Priyanka Gandhi Vadra's plunge into politics, and for good effect, she dragged in Sunny Leone quite needlessly.

Social media users, expectedly, panned her for her distasteful remark. What exactly did Payal Rohatgi say for her to become a one-day wonder? Sample this: "They say Indira Gandhi killed Lal Bahadur Shastri to become PM of India. They say Indira killed her son Sanjay Gandhi. They say Indira was a #Dictator Do we need another killer or dictator or fascist ? Blood & Lookalikes can have similar traits #PriyankaInPolitics," with a number of emojis added.

No one quite knew who she was, though she does have 99k followers. Her profile says Yogi/Gujarati Board Topper/Computer Eng/Former MissTourismWorld/Opinionated Indian Woman/Dir (SSF)/ Proud Hindu. Incidentally, she's no troll. Her account has been verified by Twitter. But yes, she was once a contestant on the controversial TV reality show Bigg Boss show.

This is the tweet which offended a large section of Twitterati.

But then again, such matters can be divisive. A number of people rushed to her defence as well and soon twitter turned into the virtual battleground it can so often become.

One user commented that if Hardik Pandya could be suspended who will act against Payal Rohatgi. The blowback refused to die down with major websites getting to it as well.

Payal Rohatgi hardly seemed affected by the outrage she had caused. Refusing to back off, on Friday afternoon Payal Rohatgi posted another five and a half minute video, justifying her comparison. In a tongue in cheek comment, she asked people who were criticising her about what was wrong in her comparison of Sunny Leone to Priyanka Gandhi. Why are feminists up in arms when she's comparing Sunny Leone to Priyanka Gandhi?, she questions. After all, they are the ones who have been building up Sunny Leone as a strong woman, she says referring to 'feminists'. Their looking down on the actress suggests they have been hypocritical, she implies. Both are new to their professions she says, and both have been leaning heavily on their husbands.

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