New Delhi: Indian Journalist and News Director at India Today and Aaj Tak, Rahul Kanwal was on Monday trolled on twitter over a tweet he posted questioning the “incompetence” of former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi.

In his tweet, Kanwal had taken a shot on Congress Chief Sonia Gandhi and former party chief Rahul Gandhi asserting that Sonia Gandhi’s blind love for Rahul and refusal to see reality was driving the party to political doom.

He further added Rahul Gandhi had not missed a single opportunity to prove his incompetence. He also wrote that Rahul Gandhi was “not cut out for politics” adding that the country was seeing this except for Sonia Gandhi and Rahul himself.

"A matriarch’s blind love for her son and refusal to see reality is driving @INCIndia to political doom. @RahulGandhi has not missed a single opportunity to prove his incompetence. The man is not cut out or politics. All of India can see this, except Mrs. Gandhi and RG himself" Kanwal wrote in his tweet.

Several users slammed Kanwal over the tweet and replied to the post opining otherwise. While some trolled Kanwal for posting his political opinion while being a journalist, others commented while Rahul Gandhi was the right man to lead the country. A few others also asserted that how the BJP government led by PM Narendra Modi was taking the country to “doom”.

Users also called out on Kanwal for siding his opinions with the BJP and Narendra Modi of late and added that the journalist was stepping out of ethical journalism to propagate the ideological agenda of the ruling party.

Several journalists, political experts, Congress workers, former Civil servants were among those who voiced their opinions against Kanwal's claims. Rahul Kanwal soon also appeared among the top-trending topics on Twitter India with over 6000 tweets at 5:00 pm on Monday.

Media & Political Strategist Nikhil Alva, INC National Convener Saral Patel, TEDx Speaker, Writer Sanjukta Basu, Journalist n anchor, from Uni of Westminster, London Fereeha, Retired civil servant NN Ojha were among some of the noted figures who posted contradicting opinions against Rahul Kanwal's tweet.

Here are some of the replies from the journalist’s tweet:

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New Delhi(PTI): The BJP on Friday said the Congress government in Karnataka may not last long with corruption and appeasement politics becoming the “order of the day” in the state.

This came after the Karnataka State Contractors Association (KSCA) on Thursday claimed that "unseen hands and brokers" were active in the offices of Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar and two other senior Cabinet Ministers, alleging that the menace of commission in the state was now more than the previous BJP government.

Responding to the allegations, the deputy chief minister on Friday suggested that if anyone has demanded commission from the contractors to pay their bills, then they should file a complaint with the Lokayukta.

“In Karnataka, corruption is at its peak in an organised manner,” BJP national spokesperson Pratyush Kanth told a press conference at party headquarters here, reacting to the development.

“You have institutionalised corruption. Only big contracts are getting their bills cleared. The medium and the small ones are struggling,” he said.

Kanth said the Congress had promised “so many things” during the state assembly polls but “scams, kickbacks and favoritism have become order of the day” under the party’s rule in the state.

While the crisis of “water and electricity bills” continues in Karnataka, the road taxes on new vehicles and bus fares have gone up, he said.

“The common people are bleeding there…This corrupt government is not going to last long. This project of Rahul Gandhi to ensure corruption all over KA is not going to have the light of the day,” he added.

Citing recent remarks reportedly made by Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah’s Economic Advisor Basavaraj Rayareddy, the BJP spokesperson said people in power, who run the state, are now saying that the state has become number one in corruption.

“Even the revenue minister of Karnataka had (earlier) gone on record to say that there is a lot of corruption in his department…This is very disturbing because Karnataka has to be the ‘khata khat model’ of Rahul Gandhi,” he said, taking a swipe at the Congress leader.

Rayareddy, who was reported to have recently said at an event that Karnataka is number one in corruption, later clarified that his remarks were misquoted and taken out of context.