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National Commission for Women chairperson Rekha Sharma has reportedly filed a complaint with Twitter India, after tweets against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Gandhi family, some containing extremely objectionable content, were posted from her handle.
Sharma, according to The Indian Express, has claimed that her account was hacked.
According to The Indian Express, Rekha Sharma said that Twitter had, following the tweets, blocked her account and alerted her about the “suspicious activity”.
Twitter users were outraged by the posts from her handle, and also for having raked up the issue of “love jihad” while meeting the Governor of Maharashtra.
According to The Indian Express, reacting to the flak for her “love jihad” comment, Sharma asserted that the issue was “blown up on social media.”
She further reportedly shared that the Chief Secretary and police officers were very cooperative on all issues.
BACKGROUND
Sharma had sparked controversy on social media after the NCW chief’s official Twitter handle posted that she met Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari on Tuesday, 20 October, and discussed “rise in love jihad cases.”
According to news agency PTI, Sharma spoke to the governor about the distinction between consensual inter-faith marriages and “love jihad.”
Netizens demanded that NCW chief Sharma be sacked for her comment on “love jihad”, as well as for a number of problematic tweets posted from her handle.
(With inputs from The Indian Express)
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