With great power comes great responsibility they say. And when you run a verified account on a social networking site with more than 700k followers reading your posts, you either have to keep your emotions in leash or well, brace yourself for the backlash for every stray tweet you wish to share in the public domain.

A day after the nation started a Twitter movement of sorts on the micro blogging site with angry users trending #BlockNarendraModi over Modi following abusive 'troll' accounts who justified and celebrated Gauri Lankesh's death, the General Secretary of All India Congress Committee Digvijaya Singh managed to grab the eyeballs of many on the platform.

On Friday, Singh posted an abusive meme taking a dig at the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his "Bhakts" (a derogatory term used on the social media against Modi's supporters) followers.

The meme read:

"Mere do achievements

1. Bhakton ko Ch***** banaya

2. Ch****** ko Bhakt banaya."

Along with the meme, Singh wrote:

"Not mine but couldn't help posting it. My apologies to the person concerned. He is the best in the "Art of Fooling!"

Here's the tweet:

Not mine but couldn't help posting it. My apologies to the person concerned. He is the best in the "Art of Fooling!" pic.twitter.com/6BGz3lFtcf — digvijaya singh (@digvijaya_28) September 8, 2017

Congress leader Digvijaya Singh posts abusive meme against PM Narendra Modi pic.twitter.com/saSBikgpHP — News18 (@CNNnews18) September 8, 2017

Needless to say, Singh's tweet drew a severe flak on the micro blogging site. Some couldn't fathom how a former CM could post such a tweet, while some trolls got back with nasty replies.

This the level of a General Secretary of a National Party... He was Chief Minister of a state.... Cheap — Yogesh Mandhani (@yogeshmandhani) September 8, 2017

You don't have to apologise sir. Aapka bhi Naam hai is meiṅ 😂 — The-Lying-Lama (@KyaUkhaadLega) September 8, 2017

When an elected representative tweet something with word 'chutiya' in it, tells a lot about his character, leadership and vision. — Miss Aarya (@whsitleblower) September 8, 2017

दिल खुश होता है जब आप मोदीजी का नाम लेकर सुबह से ही रोना चालू करते हैं, और यही हमारे लिए अच्छे दिन है। — तेज पाण्डेय (@TejbhushanP) September 8, 2017

Sir ji time to eat center fresh pic.twitter.com/aOOewSKouI — vikas (@vikas2397) September 8, 2017

Whenever you done insulting him and all those who voted for him, do celebrate his victory again in 2019. — Prachi🚩 (@INDpheobebuffay) September 8, 2017

I'm very worried with @digvijaya_28 doing all the trolling these days. This was a job for low-lifes like us. Now Cong GS is doing it. — WTF (@tweetbison) September 8, 2017

Another abusive sanghi spotted. pic.twitter.com/UHUhoQiCjY — Smoking Skills (@SmokingSkills_) September 8, 2017

However, Singh later "clarified" in his tweets that he hadn't used abusive language for the prime minister. In fact, the abusive word in the meme posted by him was used as a synonym to "fooling".

I am being unnecessarily blamed for my tweet where I have supposed to have used abusive language against PM. — digvijaya singh (@digvijaya_28) September 8, 2017

I haven't and even the comment in the picture hasn't used the word against PM. — digvijaya singh (@digvijaya_28) September 8, 2017

But used that word which is normally used for "fooling", for Modi Bhakts. — digvijaya singh (@digvijaya_28) September 8, 2017

He also went on to say that he enjoys the abuses he has received from the "paid" bhakts.

Naturally Modi Bhakts are up in Arms against me but I enjoy their abuses because they are being fooled by Modi and Paid also. — digvijaya singh (@digvijaya_28) September 8, 2017