Rahul Gandhi’s Twitter question about what is common between Pakistan, Iraq, Korea, Vietnam, Syria and Afghanistan on Thursday morning triggered wild speculation as thousands of people responded with varying interpretations according to their political persuasions.

Rahul tweeted in the morning: “Can anyone guess what’s common between these countries: Pakistan Iraq Korea Vietnam Syria Afghanistan.”

While some people tried to hunt for the hidden Narendra Modi link, others wondered if he was hinting at strained relations with the US with all these countries or the dictatorial regimes most of them suffered.

Critics slammed him for vague quizzing and even flooded his timeline with Pappu jokes. Thousands of Congress supporters blindly chose to like and re-tweet instead of engaging in guesswork.

In the evening, Rahul revealed what was in his mind, through another tweet: “Their leaders divided them internally and let their countries become battlegrounds between the dominant powers of their time. Their people paid for the leaders’ actions with blood and tears.”

While he avoided directly dragging Modi in this discourse, his arguments about people suffering because of divisive politics subtly indicated his tweets were not completely delinked from domestic politics.