Sonu Nigam clarifies he is not on X after post on Ayodhya goes viral: ‘The kind of nastiness…’ 

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Playback singer Sonu Nigam, who is known for making headlines for his controversial remarks found himself in a messy social media encounter after an imposter with a verified account in his name on X posted about the Bharatiya Janata Party losing in Ayodhya during the Lok Sabha Elections 2024, despite building the Ram Temple.

The post on X made by a handle with the name Sonu Nigam Singh read, "The government which beautified the whole of Ayodhya, gave a new airport, railway station, built the Ram temple after 500 years, created an entire temple economy, that party has to struggle for the Ayodhya seat. People of Ayodhya are ashamed!"

Sonu clarified to Hindustan Times that he is not on X. He said, "I wonder how people, including the news channels that mistook him for me, didn't do their basic sanity check by reading the description of the account. His handle says Sonu Nigam Singh and the description says that he's a criminal lawyer from Bihar. This is the kind of nastiness that forced me to quit Twitter seven years ago. I don't believe in making sensational political remarks and I only focus on my work. But yeh incident alarming hai, not just for me, but also my family's safety."

He added, "This user has been doing this for a while. I'm often inundated with screenshots of his tweets from my well-wishers. My team reached out to him and insisted he fixed his handle name and stopped pretending to be me, as millions of people are being mislead by the use of my surname. I'm sure we will find a way to fix this."

Sonu Nigam had also performed 'Ram Siya Ram' ahead of the Pran Pratishtha ceremony that was held in January this year. The singer got emotional and expressed his feelings. He he told ANI, "Abhi kuch bolne ko hai nahi, bas yahi (tears) bolne ko hai."

BJP candidate Lallu Singh lost to Samajwadi Party's Awadesh Prasad in Uttar Pradesh's Faizabad constituency. Top BJP leaders including Prime Minister Narendra Modi brought up the Ram Mandir Prana Pratishtha ceremony in their campaign speeches and assailed the Opposition leaders for not attending it. They alleged that the Opposition leaders did not attend the ceremony because of their appeasement politics.