With India battling the novel Coronavirus, the vulnerability and helplessness of people is apparent every day as they try to save their loved ones from the virus. India’s health infrastructure has almost collapsed because of the second wave of COVID-19 and the number of cases is climbing up every day. Just recently, Mallika Dua’s parents Vinod and Chinna Dua were also admitted to a Gurgaon hospital for COVID treatment. Mallika took to Twitter to seek help with the medicines.

She reached out to celebs and Congress leader Deepender Hooda but it was the BJP MP and Minister of Civil Aviation Hardeep Puri who offered his number and informed her that the medicine had been arranged.

Here’s the interaction that has been going viral on social media:

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After the conversation went viral, people started targeting her and dug up an old video where she had wished death upon all ‘Bhakts’, a term used for the supporters of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP. “All ‘bhakts’ ya. All these IT cell f*cks. They should just die,” she had said.

Here’s the video that’s being circulated online:

.@MallikaDua wishing de@th for Bjp Workers and RW ACC and BJP People are busy helping her and yet they are being called fascists by herself and her father Vinod Dua

pic.twitter.com/271xDBpKw0

— रितिक ॐ |Amy Paaji Fan (@hehehihi619) May 16, 2021

People are mighty pissed as they’re offended by the BJP leader helping her as both Mallika and her father Vinod have spoken ill about BJP leaders in the past. One of the users even pointed out how her father Vinod attacked former PM and BJP leader Atal Bihar Vajpayee on his demise.

You may think that even if someone is from opposite ideology, we should help them for humanity. But humanity is for humans, not poisonous snakes.

This is what Vinod Dua said when Atal Bihari Vajpayee ji died.

They don't even spare the dead, cheer when BJP workers are killed. pic.twitter.com/MTxxDfpvYC

— Ankur Singh (@iAnkurSingh) May 17, 2021

Another BJP supporter Ankit Jain targeted Mallika Dua's privilege as he feels that many people are losing their loved ones but aren’t getting the support. It’s the privileged ones who are getting all the help. He complained about the fact that the injection for her mother was arranged by just a tweet where the minister was not even tagged.

It is not about who voted for whom, it is about privilege. It is about an injection which is not available for a common man but is arranged without even tagging the minister. https://t.co/0UFk3LqNvv

— अंकित जैन (@indiantweeter) May 16, 2021

Here are the other reactions:

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Dua shot to fame with her comedy sketches on the work front, often tackling Delhi stereotypes four years ago, and has since been a social media sensation. In an earlier interview, she had described how her work had taken a toll on her.

She said, “I feel a lot of pressure, every day. It takes a massive toll on your mental health. I didn’t start to appease anyone, it was purely out of my own happiness. It started as ‘you are good at it, you should do more than it became ‘if you don’t do it, you won’t make money.’ Then it transformed into ‘you must do it because others are doing it and you must be better than them.’ So there’s no end to it. I don’t post obsessively anymore. I don’t want to get caught up in the rat race of numbers.”

She also premiered on Prime Video's LOL- Hasse Toh Phasse.

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