Chetan Bhagat gets trolled for a lot of things. But he’s mastered the art of moving on. Perhaps because his love for controversy overrides better sense.
Case in point: This ambiguous tweet supporting and dissing the #OddEvenFormula :
Am stunned to see how ridiculous, arbitrary, discriminatory, undemocratic and watered down this odd-even plan is becoming. Still, go for it!
— Chetan Bhagat (@chetan_bhagat) December 10, 2015 It started with his tweets critiquing the Odd-Even traffic formula suggested by the Aam Aadmi Party government:
At a time when we need economic growth and jobs, somebody decides to get half the vehicles off the roads and destroy productivity. Nice.
— Chetan Bhagat (@chetan_bhagat) December 5, 2015 That’s when Kumar Vishwas , the National Executive of Aam Aadmi Party, replied:
आजा नच लै न्यायाधीश https://t.co/SyPSYzkbr7
— Dr Kumar Vishvas (@DrKumarVishwas) December 5, 2015 Obviously, Bhagat had to come back with his own set of retorts:
Women exempt from odd-even rule. Soon, men in Delhi are going to wrap dupattas around their heads and driving their cars. Go Delhi go!
— Chetan Bhagat (@chetan_bhagat) December 10, 2015 Cop checklist: Is it odd date? Car odd numbered? Only women?passenger sick? Not Gurgaon/Noida? Sunday?Is it 8am-8pm?Repeat for lakhs, daily!
— Chetan Bhagat (@chetan_bhagat) December 10, 2015 And when Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal began tweeting some responses to the author that mocked him, Bhagat said:
Dear CM, instead of retweeting my trolls, why not respectfully discuss apprehensions people may have on a scheme? pic.twitter.com/Z7XXcw6Yhz
— Chetan Bhagat (@chetan_bhagat) December 10, 2015 What are the odds that Bhagat will come out of this with another controversy to his credit?
