Swati Chaturvedi Age, Caste, Husband, Children, Family, Biography & More StarsUnfolded
• Attacked for calling out Abhijeet Bhattacharya's Tweet: In 2016, Swati called out singer Abhijeet Bhattacharya for his controversial tweet on "love jihad" and said it had the potential to cause riots. In return, the singer hurled a volley of abuses at the journalist. The Twitter brawl was soon followed by vicious trolling of Chaturvedi by several anonymous Twitter handles. Almost a year after the incident when Abhijeet didn't stop tweeting offensive and sexist remarks against other women users, his Twitter account got suspended, but the singer returned to the micro-blogging site with a new handle in 2019.
• Tweeted a manipulated image of "sleeping" Amit Shah: In January 2019, Swati tweeted a screenshot of an image of the Indian Home Minister Amit Shah in which she claimed he was ‘sleeping’ during a parliament session. The picture was later found to be manipulated. The screenshot was taken at the moment when Shah was reading some papers on his desk and appeared like he was sleeping.
• Tweeted a fake picture of Narendra Modi: On 24 August 2019, Swati tweeted a morphed picture of the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi wearing an Arabic attire. The original image was tweeted by the Ministry of External Affairs on PM Modi’s arrival at Abu Dhabi in which the PM was not wearing any such Arabic attire.
After the Twitter users called her out for tweeting a fake image of PM Modi, the journalist apologised and deleted her tweet.
• Abused journalist Rana Ayyub: Chaturvedi, in March 2020, called out her former "ally" and fellow journalist Rana Ayyub for her controversial tweet related to the coronavirus outbreak in the country. She called Rana an ‘opportunist,’ a ‘vile person,’ and a ‘leper journalist,’ which did not go down well with some Twitter users and Ayyub, too, blocked Swati on Twitter.
• Tweeted a picture of PM Modi and his alleged wife: On 15 December 2020, Swati tweeted an image of PM Modi and others with a woman she claimed was PM Modi’s estranged wife Jashodaben. The fact check reports from various news publications revealed that the woman in the image was Alpa Vankawala, daughter of the late former Gujarat's minister Hemant Chapatwala. Swati received a lot of flak on Twitter for this, and later she took down the tweet.
• Accused of plagiarism: In 2021, Swati was accused of plagiarism, which is a grave sin in the journalism industry. Zia Haq, Associate Editor at Hindustan Times, then accused Swati of allegedly plagiarizing a paragraph of his article.
• Note: There are many more tweets and comments made by Swati Chaturvedi that have attracted controversy, especially from the right-wing users.
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