Shashi Tharoor and Derek O’Brien have in the support of AIB as a FIR was lodged against them for posting a picture of PM Narendra Modi with a snapchat dog filter.
Creating quite a raucous on Twitter, Modi bhakts were infuriated to see the dog face and even put pressure on Mumbai police to file an FIR. Later, the post was deleted by Thursday evening, but its co-founder Tanmay Bhat expressed his disappointment and wrote in a tweet:
“PS: Will continue making jokes. And deleting if necessary. And making jokes again. And Apologizing if necessary. Don’t care what you think.”
This sparked a yet another debate on freedom of expression on the social media. While some continued to target AIB, a few prominent figures rose in their support.
Derek O’Brien and Shashi Tharoor both posted a picture each of their own with the dog filter-