Paresh Rawal tweets fake quote of Kalam

“Pakistan made all possible attempts to convince me to join them. They tried to convince me in the name of Pakistan, Islam and Quran but I didn’t betray my motherland because deviating from my duties would have brought insult to my religion and country,” translated the fake quote that was attributed to Kalam. 

Twitterati instantly spotted it and accused him of propagating an agenda with fake content. Popular comedian José Covaco responded with the tweet, “Any particular reason you posted this fake information, sir?”, to which the actor replied, “Didn’t know it was fake. Had it been anybody else, would have double checked but it seemed true because of Mr Kalam!” 

However, the actor still didn’t delete the tweet for a couple of hours, by which time it was shared thousands of times by his unsuspecting followers.