41 BJP lawmakers follow Twitter users who ‘trolled’ Sushma Swaraj
New Delhi: On Sunday, external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj was trolled on Twitter following a controversy involving the issuance of passport to an inter-faith couple. To share with the world what she saw on her feed, the minister “liked” over 200 tweets — which anyone can look by clicking the “likes” tab on her Twitter profile.
A Hindustan Times analysis revealed that 41 BJP parliamentarians, who are either ministers in the union cabinet or elected MPs to the Lok Sabha, follow at least one of the accounts that tweeted out a message which Swaraj had liked to showcase trolling.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi follows eight of those accounts.
To be sure, there’s nothing to suggest that just because Swaraj’s cabinet and parliamentary colleagues follow these accounts, they endorse the tweets posted against the external affairs minister.
Previously, Amit Malviya, head of BJP’s IT cell, has said, “PM following someone is not a character certificate of the person, and is not in any way a guarantee of how the person would conduct himself.”
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.
courtesy : hindustantimes.com
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Man arrested with Rs 2.54-crore heroin in Mumbai
Mumbai (PTI): Police have arrested a man and seized over 500 grams of heroin worth Rs 2.54 crore in the illicit market from him in Mumbai, officials said on Friday.
The police's Anti-Narcotics Cell (ANC) made the drug seizure in Santacruz in the western suburbs. The operation was conducted by the Kandivali unit of the ANC on Thursday as part of a special crackdown against drug trafficking in the area, they said.
Acting on specific inputs, an ANC team conducted a raid in Santacruz (East) and intercepted a man. During a search, the team recovered 508 grams of high-grade heroin from his possession, an official said.
The seized contraband, a highly addictive, opioid drug derived from morphine, is estimated to be worth Rs 2.54 crore in the international market, he informed.
Following the seizure, a case was registered against the man under relevant sections of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, 1985, and he was formally placed under arrest in the early hours of Friday.
The police are currently investigating the source of the drug and trying to identify the intended recipients of the consignment, he said.
