Geeta Nirupam's letter to Modi came on a day when her husband claimed he had received a "threat call" on October 5 from gangster Ravi Pujari asking him to tender a public apology over his remarks on surgical strikes.
Earlier this week, Nirupam had called the surgical assault "fake" but the Congress leadership dissociated itself from his remarks, saying it had full faith in the armed forces.
Expressing concern about the security of her family, Geeta has appealed to Prime Minister to "check the vulgar comments of the random social media activists and keep politics aside from the personal and familial life."
Noting that her family has received threats from the underworld, Geeta wrote, "Yes, my husband said something that was clearly political in nature, which could have easily been discussed/ debated intellectually amongst political rivals and even commoners; just like any other Indian."
Referring to Bollywood actor Aamir Khan's statement
that his wife Kiran Rao was feeling "unsafe" in India, Geeta said she too was feeling "very unsafe" in her own country.
Terming the social media outrage against her family as "barbarism", Geeta stated that thousands of "abusive and downright vulgar" tweets are being shamelessly re-tweeted on a mass media portal and not one person - man or woman - has stood up to say stop."
"I am sadly disappointed and waiting for you to press the stop button and at least make sure that there is some censorship that monitors language on mass media. Politics is not a family game, so, can we stop dragging families into it? I want answers to my questions," she said.
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