After facing backlash and being trolled for issuance of passports to an interfaith couple in Lucknow, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj started a Twitter poll on Saturday night.
Friends : I have liked some tweets. This is happening for the last few days. Do you approve of such tweets ? Please RT
— Sushma Swaraj (@SushmaSwaraj) June 30, 2018
The poll received a total of 124,305 votes.
“In a democracy difference of opinion is but natural. Pls do criticise but not in foul language. Criticism in decent language is always more effective,” Sushma Swaraj tweeted after the poll results were declared.
In a democracy difference of opinion is but natural. Pls do criticise but not in foul language. Criticism in decent language is always more effective.
— Sushma Swaraj (@SushmaSwaraj) July 1, 2018
Sushma Swaraj has been retweeting abuses and offensive tweets directed at her over the transfer of Passport Seva Kendra official Vikas Mishra for harassing an interfaith couple in Lucknow. Not losing her calm over the abusive tweets, Swaraj had retweeted the tweets which her abusive and communal in nature.
Asked whether the ministry is contemplating any action against the trolls, spokesperson Raveesh Kumar 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.”
Earlier on Saturday, Sushma Swaraj’s husband Swaraj Kaushal tweeted a screenshot of a post by a Twitter user asking him to “beat” the minister and “teach her not to do Muslim appeasement”.
