Shabana Azmi apologises to rlys for tweet
Veteran actor Shabana Azmi has apologized to railways for tweeting a video tagging minister Piyush Goyal and the railway ministry...
Veteran actor Shabana Azmi has apologized to railways for tweeting a video tagging minister Piyush Goyal and the railway ministry that purportedly showed workers, whom she had mistaken to be railway staffers, washing dishes in dirty water. The 30-second video shows three people squatting and rinsing plates in what appears to be a puddle of water in a pothole.
Azmi had tweeted the video yesterday morning asking the minister to watch it. By evening, the ministry issued a clarification tagging the actor and calling her out on her mistake. "Mam, a video is of Malaysian eatery which faces closure after video shows workers washing dishes in a puddle of murky water," the tweet from the railway ministry's handle pointed out, even attaching a news story from the country to validate the point.
Almost immediately, Azmi apologized, but twitter trolls would have none of it, even asking the rail ministry to file a complaint of defamation against her. "Thank you for clarifying this. I stand corrected. Please accept my apologies," she tweeted. Later, she again tweeted: "I have apologized unconditionally. I stand corrected." The issue generated a lot of traction on the micro-blogging site. It received over 67,000 impressions, the ministry's tweet got 915 retweets and more than 1000 likes.
The railways were in the news recently when a video went viral showing a vendor coming out of a train toilet with tea and coffee cans. The vendor was fined Rs 1 lakh by the railways later.