Abu Dhabi: Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj has earned the sobriquet ‘tweeple’s minister’ as a tweet is all you need to seek her help.
This time it was the turn of an Abu Dhabi teenager to benefit from the twitter-savvy minister’s direct intervention when she tweeted for help after her father was arrested in Abu Dhabi last week.
“This is Anjali here. We need your help. My dad is trapped in a fraud case but has no part in it. I am just 16 so I don’t know,” the girl claimed in a message from her twitter handle.
Instant reply
The minister tweeted back within minutes. “Bachhe (kid) – give me the details. We will definitely help.”
Swaraj followed up her tweet saying she has sent word to the Indian ambassador and that the embassy would contact the girl.
Speaking to XPRESS, Anjali, a grade 12 student studying in Abu Dhabi, said embassy officials had spoken to her mother and offered free legal aid for her father who is currently in Al Wathba jail.
An embassy official who is handling the matter said they got instructions from the Indian external affairs ministry to offer help to the family.
“We have spoken to the girl and her mother, and we are following the matter. We have offered them free legal counselling as the case will take its legal course,” said the embassy official.
Earlier, Swaraj had intervened when an Indian man tweeted that his sister was trapped in a human trafficking ring in Abu Dhabi. The girl was saved by the local authorities and the Indian embassy sent her home safely.