Sushma is right, trolls wrong: HM
The government on Monday finally broke its silence over trolling of external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj with home minister Rajnath Singh saying “trolling of Sushma Swaraj is wrong”.
Eyebrows were raised as none of the BJP heavyweights or ministers came to the defence of Ms Swaraj, who was being subjected to a torrent of online hate ever since the ministry of external affairs had expeditiously granted a passport to a HinduMuslim couple and transferred an official for allegedly harassing them.
Talking to the media on Monday, Mr Singh said, “In my opinion it is wrong.” Incidentally, Mr Singh is the only minister to have come out in support of Ms Swaraj.
Ms Swaraj had conducted a poll on Twitter asking users wh-ether they “approved” of such trolling to which 43 per cent said yes while 57 per cent responded with a no.
Mumbai/New Delhi, July 2: Even as the aftereffect of trolls abusing external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj continued on Monday, Congress spokesperson Priyanka Chaturvedi has been threatened on Twitter with rape of her 10-yearold daughter, prompting a verbal duel between the BJP and the opposition party on trolling.
While senior Congress leader Abhishek Singhvi described Swaraj of victim of the “Frankenstein Monster”, created by the BJP, ruling party spokesperson Nalin Kohli asked Chaturvedi to seek legal remedies and not politicise the issue.
Swaraj has been facing online abuse over a passport row involving an interfaith couple, following which she conducted a poll on Twitter asking users whether they “approve such trolling to which 57 per cent respondents opposed hate messages as against 43 percent who said yes. Chaturvedi said she has filed a police complaint after a tweet, which was deleted later, by one @GirishK1605 who had threatened to rape her minor daughter.
“Running a Twitter handle in the name of God, you first wrongly quote me and then make indecent remarks about my daughter.Have some shame. Lord Ram will teach a lesson to people like you who have such lowly thought,” she said on Twitter tagging the Mumbai Police and the original tweet.