Chetan Bhagat's statements often seem to provide great fodder for merciless trolls on social media. (Photo: Facebook)

Popular author Chetan Bhagat has become a laughing stock after recently tweeting about his plans to stop writing and focus on something that he feels is the ‘smarter’ thing to do – making electric cars. Now that sounds a bit rich coming from him as we all know that despite the high sales of his books, his writing is not exactly ‘high-quality’ literary stuff.

Turning gears. Moving from writing to setting up an electric car project. Always a mechanical engineer :) #TimeToGetSmarter — Chetan Bhagat (@chetan_bhagat) March 15, 2017

Not surprisingly, many people couldn’t help but poke fun at Bhagat whose statements often seem to provide great fodder for merciless trolls on social media. You can check out some of their tweets below:

@chetan_bhagat @chetan_bhagat thank you so much. Half girlfriend was worst book I have ever read. Thank you so much — UMesh KArne (@UMesh_KArne09) March 15, 2017

@chetan_bhagat Oh No! In which movies will #ArjunKapoor act now? 😟 — Shivani Ahuja (@shivi_ahuja) March 15, 2017

@chetan_bhagat 3 mistakes of your life 1: writing books 2: making twitter account to get trolled 3: now this car bullshit .... 😂 — kathy Sidz (@urhighnex) March 15, 2017