Congress IT cell head, Divya Spandana recently made out a tweet using a news report about an alleged break down of the newly unveiled Vande Bharat express to target the central government. However what surprised many was that she attempted to link the railway mishap with the Pulwama terror attacks. Tagging Railway Minister Piyush Goyal in a post, Spandana wrote “This was supposed to be India’s answer to #PulwamaTerrorAttack according to @PiyushGoyal.”

Various recent media reports suggested that the newly unveiled Vande Bharat express had a break down during its trial run. However, what the reports failed cover was the cause of the break down and ended up conveying a misleading message altogether.

Around 200KMs away from Delhi at Tundla, the Vande Bharat express which was carrying only a handful of passengers in a non commercial run, suffered a cattle hit. As the cattle had come under the train, the communication system of the last coach stopped working which affected the entite train system. At last, the coach had to be isolated, and train restarted as usual, without any further glitches.

However selective reporting by some media houses, whom Spandana quoted, gave out a wrong impression that the train had manufacturing faults. Such selective reporting is akin to spreading fake news. A person like Divya Spandana, who is the head of the IT Cell of India’s oldest political party should have been a little more careful, while sharing such a news. Also many feel, there was no need to drag in the Pulwama issue in it, especially when that has become a sensitive issue for the people of India.

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