Coalgate gets PMO tweeting aggressively

NEW DELHI, INDIA: Even as the Bhartiya Janta Party halts Parliament over coalgate and goes offensive over UPA-II government, the PMO to defend Prime Minster Manmohan Singh's stand tweeted aggressively.

This is in fact the first occasion when the PM's official Twitter account sent 20 tweets in a row. CAG, in its Rs 1.86 lakh crore presumptive loss figure, puts the Congress-led government in dock.

As the PM's statement went futile in the Parliament yesterday, PMO tweets the gist of the matter: ''hazaron jawabo se acchi hai meri khamoshi, na jaane kitne sawaalo ki aabroo rakhi.''  (It's better to be silent to save the dignity of several questions)

In defense, PMO attributing to Singh said: ''The CAG says that bidding could have begun in 2006 by amending the existing system administratively. This premise of the CAG is flawed.''

The official PM's twitter account also posted 1.46 minutes YouTube video of the prime minister's statement at the Parliament House on coal blocks allocation.

To watch the video, click here.

Dr Manmohan Singh ?@PMOIndia clarifies: ''It has been my general practice not to respond to motivated criticism directed personally at me.''

PMO has more than 185,000 Twitter followers and 890 tweets so far.