Sharmistha Mukherjee, daughter of former President Pranab Mukherjee immediately (February 9) stated that she has been viciously trolled and attacked by Congress supporters on social media for her current criticism of the get together and its management.
“Ever since the book on my father came out. I had taken a lot from his diaries and certain observations about Rahul Gandhi, he (Pranab) said that he (Rahul) is yet to mature politically and he doesn’t seem to be seriously frequently absent. There is a lot of praise about Congress, but everything was ignored and Congress social media and some of the Congress leaders also had been speaking against it. Congress social media had been viciously trolling me,” Mukherjee advised media on Friday.
Mukherjee expresses concern over Congress state of affairs
Earlier, Sharmistha Mukherjee had expressed her concern over the state of affairs in Congress saying, she is anxious in regards to the get together.
“A few days back, on the sidelines of the Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF) 2024, I made a statement in an interview and I was asked about my views about the Congress. I made it very clear that I am a Congressperson, and Congress still has a lot of importance to play in national politics. But the Congress should look beyond the leadership of the Gandhi-Nehru family,” she added.
New face of Congress get together
Sharmistha Mukherjee stated that the Congress ought to take into consideration whom to challenge as its face, because the get together had misplaced badly within the final two Lok Sabha elections when Rahul Gandhi was the get together’s face.
“The face of Congress in the 2014 and 2019 Lok Sabha elections led to a drastic defeat and again another defeat is around the corner and everyone knows about this. Does this happen in any political party or BJP? I gave my views as a free citizen of a free country and as a concerned Congress supporter but, since then all hell broke loose. All kinds of abuses had been heaped upon me. Not only that, dragging my father, the whole contention of that argument as if Congress is like a zamindari of the Gandhi-Nehru family,” Mukherjee claimed.
Nasty assault by Congress supporters
She stated every kind of abuses had been heaped on her by get together supporters, and even her father’s identify was dragged into it.
“Yesterday, there has been one Congress supporter…he is followed by very senior leaders of Congress…He went berserk, saying all kinds of nasty things…nasty things having sexual connotations,” she stated.
Mukherjee stated she tried to boost the social media assaults that she has been dealing with with get together leaders Jairam Ramesh, Supriya Shrinate, and Rahul Gandhi by tagging them, however she didn’t obtain any response.”So, then I decided to write this open letter to Congress, to Rahul Gandhi and tweeted it…I also tagged Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and Congress leaders as I am not going to take this kind of sexual harassment and abuse against me and my father,” she added.
2-page letter to Rahul Gandhi
Sharmishtha Mukherjee additionally wrote to Rahul Gandhi on Friday to flag vicious and steady trolling by your supporters following the discharge of her new e book and feedback final week about his means to guide the get together into the Lok Sabha election 2024.
In a two-page letter posted on X, Mukherjee stated she had been topic to trolling, “sometimes using the nastiest language”, and recognized one social media person specifically – “Naveen Shahi, having an X handle of @Naveen_Kr_Shahi, who is followed by several senior Congress leaders…”She additional wrote that Shahi, “abused my father, Pranab Mukherjee and me in such vile language I feel nausea even to repeat it”.
“You are talking about nyay (a reference to Mr Gandhi’s ‘Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra’). As an ordinary citizen of India, I demand nyay from you as these vile abuses seem to have originated with someone having a formal, or informal, association with your organisation. I demand nyay as a woman, and whose father, has been subject (to) the most vile abuses having sexual connotations,” she acknowledged in a letter.
“To show you are serious about nyay, please take action against this person, Naveen Shahi, (and) all the others who reacted positively to his abuses, against your social media head, and your communication head, for allowing this kind of language and abuse,” Mukherjee appealed.”Show that your promise of nyay is not just an empty election slogan,” she added.
(With ANI inputs)
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