Anand Mahindra spots quote wrongly attributed to him, warns of legal action. Viral story

Anand Mahindra cautioned everyone against a viral post that has been doing the rounds of the internet. The 66-year-old businessman clarified that he has made no such statement about an average Indian man and that the quote has been wrongly attributed to him.

Social media is replete with an array of information but not everything which is available online is true. It is always easy to fall prey to misinformation and fake news. Industrialist Anand Mahindra cautioned everyone against a viral post that has been doing the rounds of the internet. The 66-year-old businessman clarified that he has made no such statement about an average Indian man. He also warned of legal actions against the miscreants. As a colleague told me: ‘It looks like it’s hunting season on you with miscreants on the internet.’ Another completely fabricated quote falsely attributed to me. I’ll be taking legal action. Meanwhile, I’m going to post the 2 memes to the right, below, whenever I spot more fakes! pic.twitter.com/9DPM5k0Kde Sir, everytime you faces such fake posts.. Just reply by this meme pic.twitter.com/AKblEPgX0N Ignore them sir, they R miscreants and wasting your valuable time. And overall you don't need to justify it to those who are not worth it.Let's focus on a new model of car which is affordable and safe at the same time to fulfill the DREAMS of MILLIONS OF INDIANSHARE KRISHNA This is really appropriate Sir... emits powerpic.twitter.com/zEzIvh7OFH Sir you and #ratantata are favorites of common men.. so I guess more and more quotes will be linked with your name randomly. :)

Anand Mahindra took to Twitter to share a screenshot of the post that is now going viral on social media. Along with it, he also shared two memes describing what he feels like when he spots some fake quotes attributed to him.