That's not all, though. The PMO's facebook.com/PMOfficeIndia page, also saw a similar drop in "Likes" -- from many thousands, down to zero and now back up to 821 as of Thursday morning.
Pachauri did not respond to queries on Twitter about this. Facebook India's only response to this IANS columnist was that the PMO Facebook page did not have "verified" status.
Just in case you thought the outgoing government's controversies were over and done with, we've got one for the road, probably its last one: Twittergate.