PTI, HYDERABAD: Congress President Rahul Gandhi today expressed anguish over the lynching of a Hyderabad man in Karnataka and said there seemed to be a sinister design to use the social media to “poison our collective conscience as a society” in the run up to the 2019 general elections. Gandhi said he was deeply saddened by the tragic death of Mohammad Azam, who was lynched near Bidar in Karnataka on July 13 even as the Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee, on his instructions, met the victim’s family and gave Rs 2.5 lakh as relief.
“The loss of an innocent life due to rumours fuelled by social media must be condemned in the strongest manner possible,” Gandhi said in a letter to Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) president N Uttam Kumar Reddy.
