Mumbai: Republican candidate Donald Trump has registered a historic win in the US Presidential Elections. Congratulatory messages started pouring in for Trump from global leaders and in India all eyes were on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's post lauding his friend Donald Trump.
However, in the excitement to report that PM Modi too extended his wishes to Trump, a TV news anchor goofed up as he read the tweet from a parody account of the prime minister, live on TV.
The video of the news presenter of India Today has surfaced on the internet leaving netizens in splits.
The post from the Narendra Modi's parody X account read that he has set up a call with Donald Trump to congratulate him and that the leaders will discuss of the current violence against Hindus in Bangladesh, Khalistan terrorism enabled by Justin Trudeau in Canada and Ukraine war.
The anchor while reading out the fake statement of Modi called it a strong statement of Modi considering the ongoing violence in Bangladesh against Hindus and the recent spate of attacks on Hindus and temples by Khalistani extremists. But little did he know then that it was a fake account of PM Modi bearing the same profile picture but 'Parody' written in brackets.
However, he immediately corrected the mistake saying "I'm sorry I've got wrong" and then subsequently going on to read out the original message from the official and verified account of PM Modi congratulating Donald Trump on historic victory in US elections.
This is a common error that usually happens with broadcast journalists while they report on such fastpaced events but netizens find such moments to latch on to to quench their roasting needs.
Several netizens did believe the account looked so real that anyone could fall to it in the first glance. However, others emphasised the need for proper verification by journalists before relaying it to lakhs of viewers watching the coverage. They also shared the tweet from PM Modi's official account that has over 103 mn followers.
Meanwhile, Shiv Sena UBT MP Priyanka Chaturvedi also took the opportunity to criticise the news channel after one of its journalists had tweeted about the biases shown by US TV channels on which political party is ahead in the results. "Parody account tweet makes it to headlines of newstainment channel report Just a few hours ago was reading tweets giving lessons to American news channels about bias, fake narrative and election coverage," she tweeted.
Well, to keep the humour alive, a parody account of Donald Trump also acknowledged the post of his counterpart and responded to the tweet in the same vein.
