Swaraj’s husband calls out Troll who asked to ‘beat her up’

Mangaloretoday News Network

New Delhi, July 01: External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj’s husband, Swaraj Kaushal, highlighted the dirty side of Twitter by retweeting and later sharing a screenshot of a tweet asking him to “beat up” the union minister for “appeasement of muslims”.

“Friends, please see this,” posted Swaraj Kaushal as he called out the abuser who identified himself as one Mukesh Gupta from IIT Delhi. His bio read, “Inventor, Designer. love Modi”.

When Gupta deleted his tweet, Kaushal posted a screenshot of it, which read: “When she comes home tonight, why don’t U beat her up & teach her not to do Muslim appeasment tell her Muslims will never ever vote for BJP”.

Sushma Swaraj has been subjected to online hate over the Tanvi Seth passport issue. She has also been ’liking’ tweets sent out by trolls criticising her issuance of passports to an interfaith couple.

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"Friends : I have liked some tweets. This is happening for the last few days. Do you approve of such tweets? Please RT," Swaraj tweeted on Saturday evening.

A Passport Seva Kendra official, Vikas Mishra, in Lucknow was transferred after an interfaith couple alleged that he humiliated them when they went to the office with their passport applications.

According to the couple, Mishra asked the husband to convert to Hinduism and pulled up the wife for marrying a Muslim.

A section of social media had attacked Swaraj and the ministry for taking action against Mishra, claiming that he was just doing his duty.

The minister had taken it on the chin and retweeted some of the tweets that were even abusive and communal in nature.

Asked whether the Ministry of External Affairs is contemplating taking any action against the trolls, Ministry spokesperson Raveesh Kumar had said, "The EAM (External Affairs Minister) has responded to those malicious tweets and the trolling which she was subjected to in her own way and in a manner which she deemed fit. I don’t think I have anything further to add on that."