Trolls Force MakeMyTrip Founder to Delete Account for Beef Remarks

Joshi criticised the beef ban, and was called ‘anti-national’ and ‘anti-Hindu’. MakeMyTrip bore the brunt.

Co-founder and former employee of MakeMyTrip Keyur Joshi was trolled on social media for his remarks regarding the beef ban on Wednesday.

He has reportedly deleted his Twitter account after the fallout.

In a series of tweets, now deleted, Joshi criticised the government’s decision of ‘taking away’ a citizen’s right to food. Expressing his disappointment, he then said that he would consume beef just to prove his rights and freedoms.

While the ban on beef has been a sensitive issue since a while, feelings regarding the same have intensified since the Narendra Modi-led government came to power. Joshi’s recent comments have added to the trail of controversial remarks and did not go down well with some people on Twitter.

Joshi was accused of being “anti-Hindu” and “anti-national”.

Soon tweets started pouring in, and many chose to uninstall the MakeMyTrip app from their phones to retaliate. Consequently, #BoycottMakeMyTrip started trending on Twitter.

Uninstalled app make my trip #BoycottMakeMyTrip pic.twitter.com/ePnUWaadqc

— Ahana (@ahana247) May 31, 2017

#BoycottMakeMyTrip Delete the Mobile App and let them know that they cannot support Cow slaughter in India and make profits too.

— HeMan NAMO (नमो:) (@HemanNaMo) May 31, 2017

#BoycottMakeMyTrip If I can tolerate broadcasting of prayer 5 in the morning 365 days.. why can't they respect my religious sentiments !!!

— Akshatha Tendulkar (@AkshathaTendul1) May 31, 2017

Dear PTs Plz #BoycottMakeMyTrip as Kaur Joshi Malik is #AntiNational. https://t.co/tESv6NeZTt

— Anti- Conversion (@anti_conversion) May 31, 2017

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Brave Keyur Joshi has deleted his twitter account. I so wanted to know his views on forced starvation of non-Muslims in AMU during Ramadan. https://t.co/zbW9bX1CzO

— Sonam Mahajan (@AsYouNotWish) May 31, 2017

MMT Clarifies

Seeing that public anger had been channelled towards the company, MakeMyTrip took to twitter to officially clarify that they did not associate with the personal opinions of a former employee.

The views expressed by Mr.Joshi on Twitter are his personal thoughts & do not reflect the views of MMT. He is not a current employee of MMT

— MakeMyTrip.com (@makemytrip) May 31, 2017

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Yet the force of social media resulted in a fall in the app’s ratings, and a clarification could only do so much.

Following the backlash, Joshi apologised for his remarks and withdrew them. He then deleted his Twitter account.