External affairs minister Sushma Swaraj initiated a poll on Twitter asking users whether they “approve” such trolling, facing online abuse over a passport row involving an interfaith couple.
On Sunday, 1st July 2018, her husband Swaraj Kaushal, in an emotional response to a troll said the Twitter user’s words had caused “unbearable pain” to his family.
In the poll started by Swaraj on Saturday night, over 1,20,000 people had participated with 57% respondents backing her, while 43% supporting the trolls.
On Saturday the matter burst out when Kaushal tweeted a screenshot of the post by the Twitter user who asked him to “beat her up and teach her not to do Muslim appeasement”
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Asking people whether such trolling was fine. “Friends : I have liked some tweets. This is happening for the last few days. Do you approve of such tweets? Please RT,” the minister tweeted.
“Your words have given us unbearable pain,” Swaraj’s husband responded to the person who had accused Swaraj of appeasing Muslims.
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