Former Congress President Rahul Gandhi today followed a Congress-friendly troll, Sanjukta, on Twitter.

Oh holy f*^k, what just happened!! I would have to mind my language and behave myself now. Times Now targeted him for meeting me and few others. Now he is following, how they will troll him for this ?. Thank you @RahulGandhi ? pic.twitter.com/PgLNenMGsK — Sanjukta Basu (@sanjukta) July 26, 2019

When she saw the notification that Wayanad MP has followed her, she was visibly elated. She tweeted, “Oh holy f*^k, what just happened!! I would have to mind my language and behave myself now. Times Now targeted him for meeting me and few others. Now he is following, how they will troll him for this,” and thanked Rahul Gandhi.

Rahul Gandhi’s follow comes just days after Sanjukta had announced on social media that only her and Rahul Gandhi’s voices ‘somewhat matter’ on the micro-blogging platform.

Since nobody guessed, one is me, the other is @RahulGandhi. He expressed grief for Shiela Dixit, tweeted about Trump Modi but skipped Chandrayan. And I am so glad he did. It shows he is a man who works from his heart, and cannot pretend. Which is why he is such a misfit. — Sanjukta Basu (@sanjukta) July 23, 2019

Without naming anyone she had announced on Twitter how only two people “whose voices somewhat matter here” dared not to care about the Chandrayaan 2 launch. After all, why should a space technology advancement matter to the only two people whose voices ‘somewhat matter’ on Twitter.

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Sanjukta had added how these two people are the only ones who are “pained and worried about the future of the nation.” She had added how one of these two people was herself and asked her followers to guess the other person.

A day later, when no one guessed the other person’s name, she announced that the only other person on Twitter ‘who works from his heart’ is the former Congress President. Sanjukta added how Rahul Gandhi tweeted about Sheila Dikshit’s passing and Trump’s statement on Kashmir, which was categorically denied by India, but not on Chandrayaan 2.

She added how perhaps this is the reason he was a misfit.

In fact, Rahul Gandhi’s resignation had even made her cry.

Reading Rahul Gandhi’s resignation letter brought tears to my eyes. This is the beginning of an end. Goodbye Rahul Gandhi. Goodbye Congress. Goodbye Nehru. Goodbye the nation I was born in. ?? — Sanjukta Basu (@sanjukta) July 3, 2019

However, now with Rahul Gandhi following her on Twitter, maybe the ‘liberals’ and ‘intellectuals’ who do not accept her in their ‘club’ will finally welcome her with open hands.

In May this year, she had taken on controversial journalist Barkha Dutt and accused her of never making Sanjukta a part of the ‘club’.

Sick is your pretense @BDUTT. Your and everybody else’s in the fraternity who can neither accept me in the club nor can they ignore me. I don’t know the club rules. I don’t fit it. So you all mostly pretend I am invisible but humiliate me at the slightest available opportunity. — Sanjukta Basu (@sanjukta) May 11, 2019

She had announced how she is an extraordinarily talented and brave woman but the ‘intellectuals’ haven’t given her any seal of approval.

I have dreams. I have desires. I too dream one day I will be one of them, they will invite me on their TV shows and women conferences, but they don’t. Because for most time, they make me feel I am a nobody. Suddenly when Tavleens and Smitas are shown mirror, the club attacks me. — Sanjukta Basu (@sanjukta) May 11, 2019

She had said how she had harboured dreams of being part of the club. But she was attacked by the same ‘club’ when she ‘showed the mirror’ to Tavleen and Smita.

In now deleted tweets, Sanjukta had referred to news agency ANI Editor Smita Prakash as a ‘prestitute’ and sided with Rahul Gandhi for calling her ‘pliable’

Sanjukta was called out by many from the fraternity but she was still adamant and stuck by her words, much like Rahul Gandhi, who she claims is just like her.

In fact, if the coincidences are to be believed, Rahul Gandhi returned to India soon after she tweeted to him to get back because without Gandhi, the world is crumbling.

. @RahulGandhi you have to come back. We know you are hurting but you have to. We also know we are asking for too much from you, but it’s your fate. You are the saviour, only you can do it, nobody else can. Just see how things are crumbling without you. — Sanjukta Basu (@sanjukta) July 23, 2019

But now with Rahul Gandhi having followed her on Twitter, considering he follows only 304 people against 10.1 million followers he has, one wonders if Sanjukta’s abuses and trolling might come down. However, there is nothing to suggest that being followed by Rahul Gandhi stops abusive behaviour of people.