Earlier this week when Maneka Gandhi proposed censorship of online trolls, Arun Jaitley, Union Finance Minister, expressed his disagreement with the same, terming it as impossible. As per Maneka, trolling women online on social media should be considered violence and the incident lately happened implies that she was correct and this idea should be given a second thought.
A right-wing troll made Priyanka Chaturvedi, Congress spokesperson, target by tweeting, “You should be raped and brutally killed like Nirbhaya. Madam why don’t you become Rahul Gandhi’s live in partner. Ha ha ha.”
The person posting the appalling tweet, @rajagra14219, is not much popular on social media but his tweet fanned the flames of growing threat of right-wing users’ online trolling.
Rajiv Agarwal’s profile suggests that he belongs to Mumbai and hence, Mumbai Police was instantly informed of the tweet after which Twitter user deleted his account.
The person in question has deleted his account now. @MumbaiPolice @CPMumbaiPolice
@rajagra14219 @priyankac19 pic.twitter.com/YjltPrUXse— J’accuse (@moi_artiste) May 20, 2016
Twitter fiercely reacted over the matter!
It’s sickening!
Sick ! Hope Twitter is taking action https://t.co/jrnNV8vReg
— sonia singh (@soniandtv) May 20, 2016
What women face on Twitter:
What women face on Twitter. pic.twitter.com/xIYui9ebn2
— anechoic (@anechoic_calm) May 20, 2016
This user asked PM Modi’s opinion over the matter:
@narendramodi ji what is your opinion on @rajagra14219! pic.twitter.com/rMk3ZhpMuE
@OfficeOfRG @IYC @INCIndia— R Binil Muthu (@binilmuthur) May 20, 2016
And users started lashing out at BJP for the disgusting tweet!
https://twitter.com/PMOAdani/status/733703705774706689
@brumbyOz These BJP retards are the freaking dolt to our society
— Tarun (@BhopaliChai_) May 20, 2016
https://twitter.com/bacwaters/status/733703316681580544
While some felt that the man is defaming BJP:
@rajagra14219, @priyankac19 if you are a man please come and meet me. Abusive language of fake BJP supporters, harming the nation
— AL-NASSER ZAKARIA (@alnasserzakaria) May 20, 2016
@rajagra14219 because of you people only Modi and BJP gets a bad name..!! never ever even for ur enemy say this..pathetic @priyankac19
— Parag kejriwal (@Paragkejriwal) May 20, 2016
Twitterati requested Priyanka to take an action against the man:
https://twitter.com/Rj_Rebels/status/733701916916486144
https://twitter.com/007_Blondie_/status/733702850853867520
Feel pity for women in his family!
.@rajagra14219 @priyankac19 can this moron be put in jail for this slander? Feel pity for women in his family..
— alok singh آلوک سنگھ (@arawn1) May 20, 2016
How do you treat your mother man? @rajagra14219 somebody should arrest him and cut his body parts… https://t.co/sZasA5yuzq
— Vedavati S (@vinuveda) May 20, 2016
And some asked Mumbai Police to find and arrest him:
Hope @CPMumbaiPolice @MumbaiPolice takes action against @rajagra14219 for threatening @priyankac19 with violence. https://t.co/iqTwMnJnBI
— Vivek Tiwari (@Viv2511) May 20, 2016
Will U find this man n set an example? @rajagra14219 needs to b traced @priyankac19 @the_sunilvarma
— Mehek (@MehekF) May 20, 2016
This user pleaded Mumbai Police to treat his tweet as a formal complaint and take action.
Dear @MumbaiPolice
Do take note of @rajagra14219 tweet on @priyankac19
You are requested to treat this as a formal complaint &take action.— J’accuse (@moi_artiste) May 20, 2016
Karma is a b*tch!
https://twitter.com/shariquenomani/status/733702835297263616
Satire at its best!
Wow man… What a thought….
Kudos to you n ur upbringing too…. Great going… Keep it up…. (-_-)— Praveen P (@PraveenParihar1) May 20, 2016
Maa ka dulara! Sanskari Bharatiya👍🏻 I am sure your kids will be good humans! Yuck yuck
— Jaideep (@keystone2887) May 20, 2016
https://twitter.com/bacwaters/status/733702341770149888
@rajagra14219 are you Rajiv Agarwal or Rape Agarwal. You should be proud of yourself and your parents must feel ashamed of you @priyankac19
— NovotetoBJP✋ (@jasmvk) May 20, 2016
What Maneka said is required indeed!
https://twitter.com/Vishj05/status/733702887293997057
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