Everyone knows how quick and efficient External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj is when it comes to Twitter. So, it should come as no surprise that she responded to an @ANI_News tweet Wednesday morning. The catch being that she plans to reveal, in Parliament, the name of a senior Congress leader who lobbied her for a diplomatic passport for a coal scam accused leader. The bombshell has, apparently, resulted in Congress backtracking

A senior Congress leader was pressing me hard to give diplomatic passport to the Coal Scam accused Santosh Bagrodia.@ANI_news

— Sushma Swaraj (@SushmaSwaraj) July 22, 2015

I will disclose name of the leader on the floor of the House.@imTejasBarot

— Sushma Swaraj (@SushmaSwaraj) July 22, 2015

Santosh Bagrodia, who was minister of state for coal under then prime minister Manmohan Singh in 2008-2009, has been named as an accused in a case linked to the illegal allocation of a coal block in Maharashtra to a private company. He was summoned by a special CBI court on Tuesday, reported NDTV.

Twitter has got the popcorn ready:

@SushmaSwaraj Mam Name that Crook leader Let us shame this party of crooks @ANI_news

— Rohan Sharma (@1amrohan) July 22, 2015

@imTejasBarot @nm_hs_rms @SushmaSwaraj have you ever herd a dialogue (chinoy seth shisow ke gharow mein rehne wale logo ke gharow pe pathar

— robbie (@robbiethe) July 22, 2015

 

@SushmaSwaraj @imTejasBarot Har baat toh tweet karke bolti hai,official work bhi toh yeh baat sansad main kyun kehena chahati hai

— asish rath (@asishrath) July 22, 2015

Sushma swaraj Mam will reveal everything on Twitter itself....obviously... She has taken lessons from Modi... Lalit Modi..!

— PrettyAwesome (@Prettyawesome_i) July 22, 2015

There are also some who are keen on giving her advice:

@SushmaSwaraj if today also the wash-out then humble suggestion from me is to use social media to put forward your side of story.

— Narendra (@NarendraNMistry) July 22, 2015

We are hoping this isn't a good teaser to a bad film. Let's not forget that Swaraj is already facing flak for allegedly supporting tainted former Indian Premier League chief Lalit Modi's bid for British travel papers.