<p class="title">Senior Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar Sunday said a fake and unverified Twitter handle was opened in his name and clarified that he was not on the microblogging platform.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"A fake, unverified Twitter account has been opened in my name and at least one message has already gone out on it," he said in a statement.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"I am not on Twitter and never had been. These dirty tricks in the middle of important state assembly elections must stop now," Aiyar added. </p>.<p class="bodytext">Earlier, in 2016, a fake account operating under Aiyar's name tricked Manish Tiwari into engaging with it on Twitter. </p>
<p class="title">Senior Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar Sunday said a fake and unverified Twitter handle was opened in his name and clarified that he was not on the microblogging platform.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"A fake, unverified Twitter account has been opened in my name and at least one message has already gone out on it," he said in a statement.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"I am not on Twitter and never had been. These dirty tricks in the middle of important state assembly elections must stop now," Aiyar added. </p>.<p class="bodytext">Earlier, in 2016, a fake account operating under Aiyar's name tricked Manish Tiwari into engaging with it on Twitter. </p>