Twitter archive haunts Kiran Bedi, Shazia Ilmi IndiaToday.in New Delhi, January 16, 2015 | UPDATED 14:00 IST Ex-top cop Kiran Bedi joined the BJP on Thursday at a ceremony attended by party chief Amit Shah and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley. In her address to BJP workers, Bedi said Prime Minister Narendra Modis inspirational leadership made her join the ruling party at the Centre. Another high-profile woman set to join the BJP, Shazia Ilmi, is a founder member of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), which has emerged as the main contender to the BJP in the Delhi Assembly elections on February 7. Ilmi last contested Delhi polls from RK Puram in 2013 on an AAP ticket, losing by a slender margin. Meanwhile, Twitter is abuzz with old tweets from the two women, who, as rivals and critics, had once attacked the BJP and Modi for the 2002 Gujarat violence and other contentious issues. Now, AAP and Congress supporters as well as others are widely sharing and taunting the two for being political turncoats. This is what AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal retweeted on Thursday shortly after it became clear that Ilmi is joining the BJP. Sample a few others: shazia ilmi ?@shaziailmi 6 Jan 2013 @sbanka9 no difference between RSS and taliban! By defending bhagwat you support Taliban!! RSS is the ideological mentor of the BJP. This is what they dug out on Kiran Bedi: Read more at: indiatoday.intoday.in/story/kiran-bedi-shazia-ilmi-bjp--amit-shah-twitter-archives/1/413626.html
Posted on: Sat, 17 Jan 2015 06:40:05 +0000
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