Union minister Anantkumar Hegde on Friday stoked a controversy by calling Congress President Rahul Gandhi a moron for his tweet that 'Modilies' is a new word in the English dictionary. Amid reports of his controversial remarks on Twitter about Nathuram Godse, Hegde claimed his account was "hacked". "We can confirm that the image showing the entry 'Modilie' is fake and does not exist in any of our Oxford Dictionaries," Oxford Dictionaries tweeted. On reports of his remarks on Twitter about Nathuram Godse, Hegde claimed his account was 'hacked'. "My Twitter account has been breached twice in the past one week and certain tweets have been posted on my timeline which has been discarded and deleted.

Source: The Telegraph May 17, 2019 07:07 UTC