Smriti Irani's 'Miss India' Video Spawns Trinamool-BJP Twitter Clash

Smriti Irani's 'Miss India' Video Spawns Trinamool-BJP Twitter Clash
New Delhi:

A video of Union Minister Smriti Irani from the 1998 edition of the Miss India beauty pageant found its way into an online debate over the movie 'Pathaan' on Friday, setting off a duel between leaders of the BJP and the Trinamool Congress.

Amid the controversy over Deepika Padukone's orange bikini in one of the songs in the movie, Trinamool Congress leader Riju Dutta responded to a tweet by the BJP's Amit Malviya with a video of Ms Irani from the swimsuit round of the contest.

रंग दे तू मोहे गेरुआ…… pic.twitter.com/KSNmA9wp6h