For the last two days, some twitter handles tried to make fun of Prime Minister Narendra Modi regarding a particular part of a speech that he made at the inauguration of World Biofuel Day. In that speech, as an example of small scale innovation, PM Modi said he read in a newspaper, the story of a tea-seller who makes tea using the biogas generated from an adjacent sewage as fuel. Quite a few troll handles and media-persons, many of whom spare no effort in defending claims of ‘connecting MRIs’ or ‘aloo ki factory’, tried to mock the PM for his ‘unscientific claims’.

Before we see why the PM’s anecdote is no laughing matter, here are some ill-informed tweets on the issue.