Health Minister targeted for ‘poor English’; this is how netizens shut down trolls

New Delhi: Soon after Mansukh Mandaviya was appointed as Union Health Minister, a group of propaganda makers and lobbyists digged out his previous tweets to mock the Minister. The tweets that were doing the rounds included the ones that indicated Mandaviya’s difficulty in communicating in English. Trollers sought to deride the Minister by reposting his previous tweets like –“Happy indipedent day” or “Mahatma gandhiji is our nation of father”.

Mansukh Mandaviya is our Health of Minister pic.twitter.com/mpYMEgI0DQ

— Joy (@Joydas) July 7, 2021

@ItsAamAadmi @AAPUlhasnagar @m_ludhwani
To all trollers of his/ her statement
India (mother) will remember her flying sikh” heres to U?
Mansukh Mandaviya is our Health of Minister
he started his fight with covid deleting his old tweets
quoting him “tray & tray will be success https://t.co/o1tslAw24L

— Sona G (@Sonu564334231) July 8, 2021

These hopeless are in ministry.. ?‍♀️?‍♀️

— Sneha Wankar (@wankar_sneha) July 7, 2021

UP elections hai. Mandviyaji ka benefit le sakte hain. pic.twitter.com/StrmtiG2nf

— sarvarta (@sarvarta) July 7, 2021

This unfortunately has been a very common and popular trend on social media to mock and insult an individual based on their English pronunciation or grammar. Though, no such trolling takes place when it comes to poor proficiency in other Indian languages.

Leaders & netizens alike denounce trolls

However, some rare and positive events took place when not just BJP and supporters, but also the leaders from opposition parties begin backing up Mandaviya and denounce the trolls.

Unfortunate to see so many fellow citizens trolling Mansukh Mandaviya ji for his lack of proficiency in English . Critic him on faults wrt his work & Ministry.

— Tehseen Poonawalla Official ?? (@tehseenp) July 8, 2021

If the only criticism you hold against a minister is his proficiency in English rather than his work, it only reflects your shallowness. Just saying.

— Priyanka Chaturvedi?? (@priyankac19) July 8, 2021

“If the only criticism you hold against a minister is his proficiency in English rather than his work, it only reflects your shallowness. Just saying,” tweeted Shiv Sena leader and Rajya Sabha MP Priyanka Chaturvedi.

Trollers shown the mirror by some

Some other Twitter users took this opportunity to mock the trollers of their hypocrisy.

Coming from a govt school in a small town, I learnt English pretty late. Have done well in my professional and personal life so far. Better than many wokes who are busy judging people on their English language skills.

— Arun Bothra ?? (@arunbothra) July 8, 2021

People trolling @mansukhmandviya for his English are truly, scum. It is a language, not a measure of your intelligence. And health issues are the same in every language! #HealthMinister

— Shefali Vaidya. ?? (@ShefVaidya) July 8, 2021

At some point of time, they made fun of NaMo’s English, he has got them to their lowest tally ever in LokSabha. Today they are trolling Mansukh Mandaviya for English again.
Some people never learn. #CabinetReshuffle

— Onkar Pandey #WearAMask (@iOnkarPandey) July 8, 2021

Can’t believe people are trolling Mansukh Mandaviya for his English. He’s an amazing minister with a great record in his last stint. We’ve been independent for 75 years now. Till when are we going to reduce people’s abilities to merely a language?

— Rushi Bhimani (@RushiBhimani95) July 8, 2021

Some people be trolling Mansukh Mandaviya for his english and using ‘did’ followed by 2nd or 3rd form of verb ?

— Mj Thakur (@mjwillmakeit) July 8, 2021

How Minister reacted, when enquired at press conference

In spite of all the controversy, Mansukh Mandaviya plays it quite cool when asked a related question in a press conference.

Question on Twitter Trolls trolling his English handled in very COOL & POLISHED way by Shri Mansukh Mandaviya @mansukhmandviya ??#MansukhMandaviya pic.twitter.com/6Kh44o6I1D

— Rosy (@rose_k01) July 8, 2021