WITHIN HOURS of tweeting a personal anecdote emphasising on Hindu-Muslim unity, Madhya Pradesh BJP president V D Sharma's wife Stuti Mishra deleted here post after getting heavily trolled on social media. An assistant professor at Jawaharlal Nehru Agricultural University in Jabalpur, Mishra on Sunday tweeted, “I need(ed) a medicine yesterday night, all shops were closed only a Muslim medicine shop was open at 11.30 pm. Driver n me went to the shop bought the medicine and he said 'didi ye wali medicine se neend aati hai kam drop dijiyega'. How caring and he was a Muslim.” She added the hashtag HinduMuslimUnity to the post, which came days after communal tension in Khargone during a Ram Navmi procession. Mishra, however, deleted her post hours later after being trolled. She also clarified: “Deleted the last tweet as it was creating unnecessary chaos. It's difficult to share thoughts on a topic of religious fight. Was not aim to hurt anyone's opinion. Let karma do the rest.” But her tweet and subsequent action of deleting it became fodder for state politics. State Congress spokesperson Narendra Saluja said, “Today efforts are being made to divide the country in the name of caste and religion, but humanity is still alive. Bhabhiji, you spoke your heart, but due to ideological differences, you had to delete it. It would have been better had you stuck by the truth, been vocal about it but it would have caused problems somewhere else.” Another Congress spokesperson, Yogendra Singh Parihar, said that even BJP state president's wife gets trolled by the BJP supporters. The troll army of the BJP does not differentiate between insiders and outsiders, he added. When asked about his wife's tweet, BJP state president Sharma told reporters, “She is an independent individual and if she had tweeted something like this. it should not be made a big (issue). It was not her intention. We all work in society with the same sentiment, we are not each others enemies.” When contacted, other BJP leaders refused to comment on the issue, calling it a personal matter. A day after the tweet took a political turn, tweets from Mishra's account were not visible on Twitter following which, Saluja said, “Until now only Bhabhiji's tweet had vanished, but now her entire account is not visible”. “In an independent country, everyone has right to have their own views. From Delhi to Madhya Pradesh, it is your government (BJP) and even then if you cannot express your thoughts, then one can imagine about others,” he said.
