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Indians Killed In Iraq: Congress’ Twitter Poll Backfires As 76 Per Cent Vote In Favour Of Sushma Swaraj
Swarajya Staff
Mar 27, 2018, 02:33 PM | Updated 02:33 PM IST
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A poll conducted by the Congress on the issue of killing of 39 Indians in Iraq by the Islamic State backfired as 76 per cent of the total 33,879 voters refused to endorse the claim that it was External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj’s failure.
In the poll conducted on Twitter, the Congress had asked if “the death of 39 Indians in Iraq is Sushma Swaraj’s biggest failure as Foreign Minister”.
Do you think the death of 39 Indians in Iraq is Sushma Swarajâs biggest failure as Foreign Minister? #IndiaSpeaks
— Congress (@INCIndia) March 26, 2018
In a rare move, the External Affairs Minister retweeted the poll that was posted by the Congress’ official page on the micro-blogging site.
Swaraj, who had said that 39 Indians missing in Iraq would be presumed alive until there was evidence to the contrary and insisted on continuing the search, informed the Parliament about their death on 20 March after their bodies were found in a mass grave unearthed in Iraq’s Mosul. The opposition accused her of delaying the announcement and not doing enough to assuage the concerns of the families of those killed. The government was also criticised for not accepting the claims made by Harjit Masih, the only Indian who managed to escape.
Responding to these claims, Swaraj had said that finding the missing Indians and concluding that they had died was not possible before the liberation of Mosul. Minister of State for External Affairs V K Singh went to Mosul just days after the Iraqi army liberated it in July 2017, she told reporters. On the issue of not accepting Masih’s claim, the minister had noted that responsible governments reach a conclusion based on facts and not on individual accounts.
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