Amid the ongoing spat between the Centre and social media platforms regarding the new IT guidelines, Shiv Sena mouthpiece Saamana, in its editorial on Monday said microblogging site 'Twitter' has lost the political interest of the BJP and has become a 'burden', which the ruling government wants to throw away. "Earlier, Twitter was the soul of political struggle or campaign for the BJP or the Modi government.

Twitter has now become a burden for them and the Modi government has reached the extent of deciding whether to throw this burden away. Today, all the media in the country is under the complete control of the Modi government, except the mediums like Twitter." The editorial believes Twitter has lost the political interest of BJP as the opposition has started responding to its alleged "false propaganda". "In the last few years, a campaign of mud hurling, character assassination is being run on social media.