India’s Sports Minister Does It Again! Now Tweets Support To Athlete With Wrong Picture

SW Staff

Vijay Goel may have gone to Rio to extend support to the athletes as they make headlines. But so far, he’s managed to make headlines of himself thanks to the alleged bad behaviour by his entourage. 

He’s again in the news thanks to his poor skills on Twitter. He’d earlier misspelt gymnast Dipa Karmakar’s name and on Monday, made another gaffe when he tweeted his best wishes to sprinter Srabani Nanda. The only problem? The picture used was of fellow sprinter Dutee Chand: 

Not surprisingly the tweet was quickly deleted and there was no acknowledgement or apology for the error. 

But Twitterati as usual weren’t so forgiving: 

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