Sushma Swaraj blocks MP on Twitter for asking her tough questions in parliament

Questions posed by MP have put minister in hot waters as she is being severely criticised by members of Lok Sabha

Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj has blocked a member of the Indian parliament on Twitter for asking her tough questions about Kulbhushan Jadhav and other issues of interest to the general public in India.

According to DNA India, the questions posed by the MP have put the Indian minister in hot waters as she is being severely criticised by fellow members of the Indian Lok Sabha.

Partap Singh Bajwa, the member of the Indian parliament from Punjab Swaraj has blocked on Twitter, has said that he had been asking the Indian minister difficult questions in parliament to nail the central government's 'lie' on the 39 Indians who had gone missing in Iraq after they were kidnapped by Islamic State. They are considered 'not dead' by the external affairs ministry.

My questions to EAM Sushma Swaraj today in the Rajya Sabha on 39 Indians missing in Iraq. pic.twitter.com/fK4qxictum

— Partap Singh Bajwa (@Partap_Sbajwa) July 27, 2017

"This is not the way one of the most senior minister of the government ought to behave. It is our right to ask her questions and it is her duty to respond. I was not even aware of this development. To my surprise, I saw that she had blocked me on Twitter," Bajwa said.



"I decided to tweet about it today (Wednesday) because in the intervening days, the Parliament was not working. I follow not her, but the external affairs minister. If she blocks an MP, then it is completely insensitive."

Is this the way to run external affairs ministry?
Does it behove the office of Sushma Swaraj ji to block a Member of Parliament for asking tough questions on 39 Indians missing in Iraq? pic.twitter.com/CvYl8aLREF

— Partap Singh Bajwa (@Partap_Sbajwa) December 27, 2017

Bajwa also accused the government of trying to hide the truth. "For the past two or three sessions, I have been grappling with her to come clean. The eyewitness is from our Gurdaspur and he told us that all of them had been shot dead in the desert. Swaraj had said that the witness was misleading the government. She has repeatedly said the government will get them back, later claiming that they were all alive and have been tied up as bonded labour in Mosul, but this was repudiated by the Iraqi premier," said Bajwa.

"I believe that she was initially misled. She realised that a false stand had been put up in parliament, but now they are not ready to change their stand."

This article originally appeared on DNA India