41 BJP MPs follow accounts that trolled foreign minister

The 211 tweets listed by minister Swaraj came from 169 accounts

The 211 tweets listed by Swaraj came from 169 accounts. 18 of these accounts are followed by at least one BJP parliamentarian.

“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,” Swaraj tweeted Sunday.

Which tweets should be classified as trolling or not is subjective and often debatable, but this is among the first time concerns regarding “hateful” messages in the Indian Twittersphere have been raised by a cabinet minister.

The list which the Hindustan Times looked at was curated by Swaraj herself. No modification was made to retain Swaraj’s judgement about the nature of tweets.

The current controversy erupted when Vikas Mishra, an officer in the regional passport office of Lucknow was transferred after he allegedly humiliated Tanvi Seth and Anas Siddique, a Hindu-Muslim couple. According to reports, he had asked the woman to change her name and her husband to convert to Hinduism. Mishra has contested the allegations of misbehaviour. Shefali Vaidya, ShefVaidya followers 2,43,953

Rishi Bagree, rishibagree 94,522

V K SHARMA, VictoryForNamo 1,00,895

JAY®, Saffron_Rocks 1,27,147

Hardik Bhavsar, HARDIKBHAVSAR10 90,581 #GauravPradhan, DrGPradhan 1,27,809

Manak Gupta, manakgupta 2,80,270

Ashok Garekar, DrGarekar 1,25,644

Vinod Sharma, vinod_sharma 17,167

MithileshPandey, mithileshpandey 12,033