New Delhi: A huge controversy broke up on the social media, when official Twitter handle of Startup India retweeted tweets inciting violence against journalists allegedly taking pro-Pakistan stand.
However, after an uproar Commerce and Industry Ministry said on Wednesday that action has been taken against the individual responsible for retweeting “unwarranted and irrelevant re-tweets” on Startup India handle.
“Unwarranted and irrelevant retweets have been deleted. We do not endorse anything outside the startup eco-system. Apologies to our followers,” tweeted Startup India.
In the evening, Commerce and Industry ministry tweeted that the person responsible for those controversial retweets had put down his papers. “This is with reference to two unwarranted & irrelevant re-tweets done in the midnight by @startupindia handle.
“Moment it was noticed that @startupindia had done two unauthorised retweets. Right then at midnight the retweets were undone,” the ministry said in series of tweets.
It said that the unauthorised re-tweets were done by one employee of the agency duly hired by the DIPP through a tendering process. Person assigned by the agency for this particular job is not decided by the department and is the sole prerogative of the agency, it said, adding the usual practice of getting the tweets/retweets approved from the department was not followed in this case. “It was completely wrong for the employee,” it said.
