<p>Rahul Gandhi's Twitter feed has suddenly seen a surge in humour and numbers, leaving some wondering whether somebody else does the job for the Congress vice president.<br /><br />Now, Rahul has hit back with sarcasm and humour to take on the 'Doubting Thomases' by posting a video of his pet 'Pidi', a puppy, and holding it responsible for all the tweets from his handle.<br /><br />"People (have) been asking who tweets for this guy..I'm coming clean..it's me..Pidi... Look what I can do with a tweet..oops..treat!," <br />Rahul tweeted on Sunday afternoon. The tweet gathered over 5,400 retweets and some 14,000 likes in the first five hours.<br /><br />In a video, Rahul can be heard prompting Pidi to do a namaste. The puppy then stands up and a biscuit is placed on its muzzle. Soon after a gesture by the hand, the biscuit disappears into Pidi's mouth.<br /><br />However, the video also got a political punch from a former Congress leader, who is now a prominent minister in the BJP government in Assam, Himanta Biswa Sarma.<br /><br />In response, Sarma tweeted, "Sir @OfficeOfRG,who knows him better than me. Still remember you busy feeding biscuits 2 him while we wanted to discuss urgent Assam's issues." <br /><br />Rahul, with over four million followers, has of late been coming up with witty posts. However, his critics have claimed that it is not his work and is the handiwork of a team of social media professionals.<br /><br />Some reports also claimed that the recent surge in the number of his followers was due to bots.</p>
<p>Rahul Gandhi's Twitter feed has suddenly seen a surge in humour and numbers, leaving some wondering whether somebody else does the job for the Congress vice president.<br /><br />Now, Rahul has hit back with sarcasm and humour to take on the 'Doubting Thomases' by posting a video of his pet 'Pidi', a puppy, and holding it responsible for all the tweets from his handle.<br /><br />"People (have) been asking who tweets for this guy..I'm coming clean..it's me..Pidi... Look what I can do with a tweet..oops..treat!," <br />Rahul tweeted on Sunday afternoon. The tweet gathered over 5,400 retweets and some 14,000 likes in the first five hours.<br /><br />In a video, Rahul can be heard prompting Pidi to do a namaste. The puppy then stands up and a biscuit is placed on its muzzle. Soon after a gesture by the hand, the biscuit disappears into Pidi's mouth.<br /><br />However, the video also got a political punch from a former Congress leader, who is now a prominent minister in the BJP government in Assam, Himanta Biswa Sarma.<br /><br />In response, Sarma tweeted, "Sir @OfficeOfRG,who knows him better than me. Still remember you busy feeding biscuits 2 him while we wanted to discuss urgent Assam's issues." <br /><br />Rahul, with over four million followers, has of late been coming up with witty posts. However, his critics have claimed that it is not his work and is the handiwork of a team of social media professionals.<br /><br />Some reports also claimed that the recent surge in the number of his followers was due to bots.</p>
