Swaraj, who arrived here Saturday on a two-day visit, also co-chaired the second joint commission meeting with her counterpart Shaikh Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa.
Govt sources told India TV that since proper rules were followed in the issuance of passport to Tanvi Seth by RPO Lucknow, there was no question of revoking her passport.
Sushma Swaraj was targeted by the Twitterati after an officer was transferred for questioning the discrepancies in documents relating to the name of Tanvi Seth, wife of Mohammad Anas Siddiqui, who had applied for passport.
"In my opinion, it is absolutely wrong," Singh told reporters here when asked to comment on the issue.
EAM Sushma Swaraj hits back at trolls with Twitter poll
The minister's husband Swara jKaushal, in an emotional response to a troll, today said the Twitter user's harsh words had caused "unbearable pain" to his family.
Earlier on June 25, Sushma Swaraj was trolled on Twitter after a regional passport officer in Uttar Pradesh’s capital Lucknow was transferred for allegedly harassing an inter-faith couple.
Yesterday, Pompeo spoke over the phone with Swaraj to express his "regret and deep disappointment" at the US having to postpone the dialogue for "unavoidable reasons".
The development has come a few days after a controversy involving the issuance of passport to an inter-faith couple hit the headlines.
On behalf of the people of Seychelles & the govt, I would like to say thank you to India. We will always be a faithful friend & partner to India. Long live our healthy relations, Danny Faure said after receiving the craft.
The External Affairs Minister found herself amidst criticism for lending support to inter-faith couple for passport
A section of social media attacked Swaraj and the ministry for taking action against Mishra, claiming that he was just doing his duty. However, the minister took it on the chin and retweeted some of the tweets that were even abusive and communal in nature.
Sushma Swaraj takes on trolls, retweets and likes messages she received after Lucknow passport row
The ministerial meeting was announced during Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's meeting with President Donald Trump last July.
Seth tweeted her ordeal to Sushma Swaraj seeking help. "It was a humiliating experience, the officer was very loud & made attacking hand gestures," Seth said in her tweet to External Affairs Minister.
Swaraj, who is on a five-day trip to South Africa, attended the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) Foreign Ministers' meeting.
In a major scare on Saturday evening, an aircraft carrying External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj from Trivandrum to Mauritius, on her way to South Africa, went incommunicado for 12-14 minutes.
Swaraj will also attend a series of events marking the 125th anniversary of the historic incident where a young Mahatma Gandhi was thrown out of a train compartment in Pietermaritzburg railway station, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said.
Swaraj’s comments came just ahead of a meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, who was visiting Delhi to seek India's support for keeping the Iran nuclear deal alive.
The minister said: "I am repeating again, at the Doklam faceoff site there is no change in the situation, status quo is continuing."
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