Rajdeep Sardesai, a consulting editor with the India Today Group, got brutally trolled for his tweet on Friday.

He took to social media to tweet about the earthquake, the tremors of which were felt across North India and Delhi, prompting people to rush out of their homes.

Tremors were also felt across Pakistan’s Islamabad, Lahore and Peshawar as an earthquake of magnitude 6.3 on the Richter scale struck near Tajikistan, according to India’s National Center for Seismology.

He took to his Twitter account and wrote, “It takes earthquake tremors  at times to unite India and Pakistan. Prayers for the safety of people in BOTH countries.. Geography unites where politics divides. Stay well, stay safe! Good night, shubhratri!”

Check out his tweet here:

It takes earthquake tremors at times to unite India and Pakistan. Prayers for the safety of people in BOTH countries.. Geography unites where politics divides. Stay well, stay safe! Good night, shubhratri!

— Rajdeep Sardesai (@sardesairajdeep) February 12, 2021

Nonetheless, soon after his tweet Sardesai got savagely trolled over this tweet on the micro-blogging site. 

Check out some of the reactions here: 

Aye gappe bhikarya.....!!!!!!!

— TheWittyRighter (@WittyRighter_29) February 12, 2021

Dalle @sardesairajdeep pic.twitter.com/qoHLAhQ4bU

— EK VAIRAAGI (@EkVairaagi) February 13, 2021

'Secular' earthquake

— G (@geet_in) February 12, 2021

Hahahahaha...

That's the best one 🤣🤣🤣

— Rishikesh Anand (@Rishike14808236) February 12, 2021

And here I thought epicenter was Afganistan. But no words for them.

— Namita Bhargava (@Namitaangelite) February 12, 2021

Kya sirji , inko #bachchodi dekh #college ki yaad aa rahi aapko, aisa lag raha hai

— Adarsh Agarwala🇮🇳 (@AdarshAgarwala) February 13, 2021

Bhau-shree Rajdeep Sardesai aap to waise hi united ho pak se Ye bakcho** Kyu kar Rahe

— Yogi Maharaj 1.0 (@yogimaharaj_) February 12, 2021

A powerful earthquake of magnitude 6.3 struck in Tajikistan on Friday with tremors felt across North India and Delhi, prompting people to rush out of their homes. 

To add to the panic, the National Centre of Seismology (NCS), the main Indian agency that monitors earthquakes in the region, had initially reported that the epicentre of the earthquake was near Amritsar. The agency had also reported that the earthquake originated only 10 km below the earth’s surface. 

Needless to say, the kind of devastation that kind of an earthquake would have caused would have been massive. However, the NCS was quick to correct its report and issued an alert a few minutes later, but by that time, it had already been reported by the media. 

The epicentre of the earthquake was actually in Tajikistan - about 450 km from Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir, according to India's National Center for Seismology. 

The earthquake struck at 10:31 pm IST at a depth of 74 km from the surface.

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