*NEW DELHI: In a first, the world witnessed an unprecedented dragging of adictionary into the electoral battle.*
It was the famous Oxford Dictionaries which was employed in India as anelections tactic, since the country is currently undergoing its generalpolls season.
The word “Modilie” — referring to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s lies —appeared to be a dictionary’s recognized word on Thursday, when RahulGandhi tweeted what he said was a screen shot of an online dictionary entryfor the word combining the words Modi and lie.
“There’s a new word in the English Dictionary. Attached is a snapshot ofthe entry :),” the heir of India’s Nehru-Gandhi political dynasty wrote ina post link on hisofficial Twitter account.
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The claim of Gandhi, Modi’s main challenger in the election, turned out tobe false when Oxford Dictionaries replied on its verified Twitter accountsaying: “We can confirm that the image showing the entry ‘Modilie’ is fakeand does not exist in any of our Oxford Dictionaries.”
Gandhi, 48, also tweeted a link to a website called www.modilies.in that hesaid “catalogues the best Modilies!”
