Amritsar: AAP Rajya Sabha member Vikramjit Singh Sahney on Friday claimed that someone had “impersonated” the official handle of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) on the microblogging platform X.
He said the impersonator had created the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee parody account, which was active since Sept 2023. In a statement released here on Friday, Sahney said he had taken up the issue with the Union information technology minister Ashwini Vaishnaw.Sahney said the parody account has over 13,500 followers, and it alarmingly holds a paid verification badge (blue tick), lending it unwarranted credibility. TNN

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