Rahul Gandhi sees 'sinister design' behind social media rumours that fuel lynching

Congress president Rahul Gandhi wrote a letter yesterday to a Telengana legislator talking about a "sinister design to use social media to poison our collective conscience" in the run up to next year's general elections in the country. He was referring to recent incidents of mob violence, and in particular, about the lynching of Telengana techie Mohammad Azam, in Karnataka's Bidar late last week.