Identity politics: Assam Congress tweet links Gujaratis to fraud crimes

'Another Gujarati, one more bank fraud, same modus operandi of fleeing from the country. Chowkidar-ji sleeping during his duty,' Congress tweeted

The Congress party was criticised on social media on Monday when the official Twitter handle of the Assam unit of the party tweeted the news about a businessman from Gujarat, who was being investigated by probe agencies for an alleged bank fraud, and who might have escaped to Nigeria. "Another Gujarati, one more bank fraud, same modus operandi of fleeing from the country. Chowkidar-ji sleeping during his duty," the Congress party's Assam unit official Twitter handle said. There was a maelstrom of criticism — the party came under attack for being “parochial” and “for promoting the kind of identity politics