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Indian Minister causes uproar on social media over extravagant temple offering

Indian social media users are criticising the chief minister of southern Telangana state for using $750,000 (£610,790) of public funds to offer gold at a famous temple. Kalvakuntla Chandrashekhar Rao on Wednesday, february 22, 2017, offered gold to 'thank the gods' for the success of his decade-long campaign to create India's newest state in 2014.

But Twitter users didn't take it funny as they said the extravagant offering was 'senseless' with a lot people dying of starvation in the state. See some of the tweets after the cut...

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