When Sushma Swaraj helped Pakistan Hindu migrant girl

Sushma Swaraj is in the midst of a major outrage related to issuing passport to a inter-faith couple. But this is not the first time that MEA Sushma Swaraj has bent rules to oblige someone seeking her intervention.

The year was 2016 and the city Jaipur, a Pakistan Hindu migrant girl Mashal Maheshwari wanted to appear for NEET, the merit-based entrance exam for admission to medical colleges, and made an impassioned appeal to Swaraj.

“Give me chance to appear for NEET, it will be my luck if I manage to clear it,” she had appealed to Swaraj.

Mashal and her family had not been in India for long and as per rules she was a foreign national and ineligible to appear for NEET. Swaraj was quick to respond, “Mashal - don’t be disappointed my child. I will personally take up your case for admission in a medical college,” she assured on twitter on 29 May 2016. So with Sushma’s intervention, Mashal joined SMS Medical College in Jaipur without appearing or clearing the entrance exam.