After cocky tweets, the government has fittingly had to eat crow.


The government on Monday apologised to vice-president Hamid Ansari, a yoga practitioner himself, for BJP general secretary Ram Madhav's controversial tweets questioning his absence from the Yoga Day function on Rajpath.


Union minister Shripad Naik cited protocol to clarify that the vice-president can't be invited to an event where the Prime Minister is chief guest.  "Unknowingly something happens, we apologise for that. It should have been avoided. It's a mistake, he (Madhav) agrees, he apologised. He withdrew his statement," Naik said when asked to comment on the BJP leader's controversial tweets on Sunday.


His statement came following reports that the government is upset with the needless controversy triggered by Madhav's tweets.


Pic: The cartoon on the Hindu today on the tweet row.