Sushma Swaraj trolled by netizens

New Delhi, Jul 01: The Union Minister Sushma Swaraj has been badgered on Twitter for days after an inter-faith couple, allegedly harassed over religion by officials, got their passports after complaining to her on social media.

On Saturday, she marked out about a dozen tweets by "liking" them on Twitter and asked people to vote. The poll asked if they approved them.

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

Ms Swaraj had last week apparently hoped to shame the trolls that flooded her timeline with abuses, crude comments about her health and communal invectives. She invited people to go through some of the tweets she had received while she was traveling abroad.

This morning, her husband Swaraj Kaushal received another. This one suggested that Mr Kaushal, a former Mizoram Governor, should thrash his wife when she is back from work to teach her a lesson.

The attack on Twitter comes five days after Ms Swaraj was abused on Twitter after passports were issued to an inter-faith couple from Uttar Pradesh. The woman had alleged an officer at the passport office had told the husband to change his religion.

The passport officer was later transferred, which led the trolls to attack the foreign minister - who was abroad at the time -- for what they claimed was punishing a man who was only doing his duty.

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