In March 2016, Congress leader Manish Tewari had tweeted about an alleged crucification of Father Thomas Uzhunnali by the ISIS and ‘questioned’ Indian government’s inaction because “he was a Christian”.
So ISIS allegedly crucified Father Thomas Uzhunnali &BJP Govt did nothing. Why because he was a Christian?Mr PM he was also a fellow Indian
— Manish Tewari (@ManishTewari) March 29, 2016
Unless Tewari believes that it’s possible for a human being to come back to life after crucification, he was clearly spreading lies, because Father Thomas is alive.
It was confirmed earlier this week that Father Thomas Uzhunnali was rescued from Yemen with help of governments of Oman, Saudi Arabia and the Vatican.
Fr Tom has spoken to me from Vatican. He profusely thanked the Government of India especially the Prime Minister for efforts to rescue him.
— Sushma Swaraj (@SushmaSwaraj) September 13, 2017
India thanks Oman. India thanks Yemen.
— Sushma Swaraj (@SushmaSwaraj) September 13, 2017
External Affairs Minister then re-tweeted her tweets where other Christians were rescued from conflict zones like Yemen and Kabul amongst others, in a clear response to allegation of Tewari about a possible bias against Christians:
Yes 3.34 am – because that’s the time Sister Sally who escaped the terrorist attack in Aden was evacuated from Yemen https://t.co/WnFTDusdlx
— Sushma Swaraj (@SushmaSwaraj) March 8, 2016
23 July 2016 – Judith D’Souza came home after her release from captivity in Afghanistan. pic.twitter.com/OlESG47SFJ
— Sushma Swaraj (@SushmaSwaraj) July 24, 2017
It should be recalled that the Prime Minister too had spoken about rescue and release of Indian Christians held captive in conflict zones, yet Manish Tewari thought that the government was not rescuing Christians:
Delighted at securing the release of Indian Jesuit priest Father Alexis Prem Kumar from captivity in Afghanistan.
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) February 22, 2015
On getting called out for his mischievous remarks, Tewari then shifted goal-post and resorted to name-calling Swaraj. He called her “Minister of Counsellor Affairs and cheerleader” for PM Modi.
It sad to see EX LOP-External Affairs Minister reduced to Minister of Counsellor Affairs & cheer leader for @narendramodi. No policy role?? https://t.co/7JtBa156bm
— Manish Tewari (@ManishTewari) September 13, 2017
He even accused Swaraj of not having any role to play in rescue of Father Thomas Uzhannali, whom he himself had claimed to have been crucified over a year ago. He forgot that Swaraj herself had thanked the governments of Oman and Yemen, yet the Congress leader suggested that there was an attempt to deny the credit to these countries:
If @SushmaSwaraj had any role to play in rescue except sly Tweeting to claim credit would hv gone to Muscat to roll out red carpet herself https://t.co/kzbeK7YzcV
— Manish Tewari (@ManishTewari) September 14, 2017
He clearly seems unapologetic about spreading fake story about Father Thomas Uzhannali’s crucification and blaming Modi government for not doing anything about it because he is a Christian.
After all when a friendly mainstream media doesn’t call out your lies and propaganda, it becomes easy to be brazen.
