Yesterday, the Information and Broadcasting Ministry issued directives to curb the fake news menace, which led to a major public meltdown of the celebrity journalists of India, who are otherwise vocally against fake news. However, in less than 24 hours, the directive was withdrawn by the ministry as the Prime Minister’s office directed that such decisions should be taken by bodies such as Press Council of India.
Amidst all this, Maharashtra Congress President, Sanjay Nirupam tweeted an extremely misogynist and condescending tweet referring to Smriti Irani as ‘Bahurani’ (daughter in law), which seems like a reference to very popular serial starring Irani, ‘Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi.
U-turn of Modi Govt on #FakeNews circular is a slap on the face of #Bahurani.
Her effort was to strangulate the freedom of press in the country.— Sanjay Nirupam (@sanjaynirupam) April 3, 2018
Nirupam got called out by Twitterati for his sexist remark against Irani.
U r worse than the sadakchaap gunda..proves what u and ur party think of women in power
— Spoorthy Babu Karkra (@simplyspoorthy) April 3, 2018
Look at the language of this third rater. He cant even respect a woman and dreams of @RahulGandhi as PM of India. https://t.co/lcGeCeTIBv
— Anurag Dixit (@bhootnath) April 3, 2018
Terribly violent language to use. Smriti Irani can be countered without misogyny. https://t.co/fPF6TmQKai
— Aditya Paul (@adityampaul) April 3, 2018
Usual Congress cheerleaders also called him out on his choice of words.
RaGa talks about women empowerment and his aides talk like this. This is how our political parties divert the attention from main issues to save each other. https://t.co/YKgaq9V4wl
— Kanchan Srivastava (@Ms_Aflatoon) April 3, 2018
This sort of abusive language reeks of sexism and is undesirable. Counter your political rivals as strongly as you wish to but without lowering political discourse. https://t.co/JyC8vkRgEy
— Rohini Singh (@rohini_sgh) April 3, 2018
He even got reminded of the virtues of civility.
Terribly violent language to use. Smriti Irani can be countered without misogyny. https://t.co/fPF6TmQKai
— Aditya Paul (@adityampaul) April 3, 2018
