Bhandari converts President Office's Twitter handle into private account

After serving as President for two terms that lasted for seven and half years, Bidya Devi Bhandari left Sheetal Niwas on March 13. During her tenure as the head of the state, Bhandari courted controversy for many of her decisions.But the latest controversy is Bhandari claimed the official Twitter handle of the President of Nepal after her retirement. The former president is being widely criticised on social media and in public for changing the president’s official Twitter handle into her personal name.Bhandari, has converted the official handle of the president @presidentofNP into @BidyaDBhandari. The twitter account has some 25,000 followers. In converting the professional handle into personal, Twitter has removed its blue tick, a verified badge on Twitter. Mentioning Bhandari’s tweet on Thursday, where she congratulated the Nepali Cricket team for earning an automatic berth at the World Cup Qualifiers after their win against the United Arab Emirates, a Twitter user @Rjaiseri wrote: “She should have felt a bit ashamed for tweeting from a stolen ID.”On Bhandari’s congratulatory tweet, many users wrote sarcastic comments and some others criticised her for her ‘indecent act.’“I would have given her my Twitter account for free,” read another comment by Damodar Neupane, with Twitter
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