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Twitter Agog With The Hashtag MeTooUrbanNaxal  

29 Aug, 2018 14:32 IST
Vivek Agnihotri

It all started with the film maker Vivek Agnihotri asking some "bright young people to make a list of all those who are defending #UrbanNaxals"...

His tweet opened the floodgates with hundreds of people volunteering to sign up..

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Pratik Sinha co-founder of Altnews not only volunteered to be on the list, but asked twitterati to tag Agnihotri and "help him build his list."

Journalist Nikhil Wagle, in his tweet said that if activist Sudha Bharadwaj is naxal, he is one too.

There were several others...

Rahul Roushan, who sarcastically describes himself as a well-known expert on nothing, said that the trend is a mere repeat of the "I am anti-national" rhetoric of 2016.

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