Acerbic AIADMK spokesperson Nanjil Sampath is the recent victim of one such troll- loving netizen who politely called him over phone and addressed an ‘unquotable’ query to him. 

Unaware that the caller had called to ridicule him for playing the Devil’s advocate, Sampath had reportedly attended the call as usual and engaged the caller for a few minutes. Reality dawned on him a few seconds later when the caller posed the uncomfortable query and waited for his answer. 

An annoyed Sampath went silent for a few seconds before hanging up the call, which went viral on WhatsApp groups from Saturday. Perhaps, he should have exercised caution, given that his party colleague and minister Valaramathi had suffered a similar fate a few days earlier. 

Luckily, the shrewd minister had played it smart by advising the caller not to preach to her the virtues of democracy and leave ‘voting’ in the House to elected representatives.