All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen President and Member of Parliament from Hyderabad Asaduddin Owaisi has strongly condemned the hateful attacks on country's External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and said that the IT Cell of her own party BJP was behind the vicious campaign.
He was responding to a question about the attacks in social media on Sushma Swaraj. He said more than the attacks by the hateful trolls, the silence of the Prime Minister Narendar Modi and other Ministers and BJP leaders was shocking and reprehensible.
"This is part of their strategy that whoever slightly deviates from their path become target of their hateful and vicious campaign", he said. "BJP IT cell has been organising and encouraging such campaigns against the opponents of the party. But now they have turned against their own Minister and no BJP leader has come to her defence".
He expressed shock that when the hate campaign forced Sushma Swaraj to conduct a poll in twitter 43% respondent justified attacks on her. "This itself is evidence that the BJP was behind these attacks and it was encouraging such elements", he added.
Sushma Swaraj was under sustained attack by the trolls ev r since her ministry issued passport to an inter faith couple and transferred an official of lucknow passport office Vikas Sharma who had earlier reportedly unsuited the couple and denied them the passport.
While many of the trolls were demanding her removal from Modi cabinet some of them have used unprintable and filthy language against her. Sushma in her part has retweeted some of those messages to highlight her victimisation.