Sushma Swaraj face online abuse for helping Lucknow interfaith couple in Passport row

Mangalore Today News Network

New Delhi, June 24: External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, who returned to India on Saturday following her week-long visit to four European nations, has taken to task the trolls who targeted her over the controversy surrounding the transfer of a passport officer in Lucknow by naming and shaming them on her Twitter account.

Swaraj, who is known for taking prompt action on citizen’s complaints and is often praised for it, on Sunday used the platform to highlight the abuse she has been facing for the ministry’s action against passport officer Vikas Mishra, who had allegedly humiliated an interfaith couple in Lucknow.

The passport officer was transferred after the couple tagged Swaraj with their complaint. In their tweets, Mohammad Anas Siddiqui and Tanvi Seth had alleged that Mishra had asked the husband to convert to Hinduism and pulled up the wife for marrying a Muslim in front of several others.

The couple’s passports were issued a day after they complained to Swaraj on Twitter. The Regional Passport Office in Lucknow shunted Mishra to Gorakhpur the same day.

The union minister on Sunday shared a sample of the tweets she has been receiving since she ordered the transfer of the officer, who had claimed that he was just doing his duty. “I was out of India from 17th to 23rd June 2018. I do not know what happened in my absence. However, I am honoured with some tweets. I am sharing them with you. So I have liked them (sic),” she wrote.

The two tweets that Sushma Swaraj “liked” and retweeted are abusive and communal in nature.


Author: Indra Bajpai @bajpai_indra

Replying to @MEAIndia and 2 others

Biased decision #ISupportVikasMishra shame on you mam...is it effect of your islamic kidney??


Author: Capt Sarbjit Dhillon @dhillonsarbjit2

Replying to @RoflRudra @SushmaSwaraj

She is almost dead woman as she runs on only one kidney (borrowed from some one else ) and any time that can stop working .

Author: Jyoti#पंडिताइनउवाचः @jyotitiwari05

If you do your duty you are questioned, if you don’t you are perfect that’s India under so called pro- Hindu rule #IStandWithVikasMishra

Author: Sheldon’s Cat @JangleeBilla
Replying to @rishibagree @SushmaSwaraj

It seems Sushma ji wants to join congress so she is proving more sickular than pappus and pidis.

Shame on her for favouring muslims.
Shame on her for granting visas to Pakis.
Shame on her for subverting laws.

A cursory search on social media platforms throws up several more abusive tweets, most of them with the hashtag ‘I Stand With Vikas Mishra’.