This is why External Affairs minister Sushma Swaraj will always remain the go-to mantri in this government for Indians in distress.


Swaraj, was discharged from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences on December 19 where she underwent a kidney transplant. She has now been recuperating at home but is not allowed visitors for at least three months.

Evidently, the foreign minister has NOT been taking it easy and is doing what she does best -- reaching out to Indians in trouble in foreign shores.

Swarak tweeted to say: I have asked Indian Ambassador in Norway to send me a report.  

BJP leader Vijay Jolly had written to her and the Indian Ambassador in Norway after the couple sought his help in getting back the custody of their child.

In his letter to Indian Ambassador Debraj Pradhan, Jolly had raised concern on forcible custody of the boy Aryan by Child Welfare Department of Norway on baseless and fabricated complaint in Oslo on December 13. Sharma is a member of Overseas Friends of BJP.

Jolly said he has received a call from a senior MEA official saying that help will be given to the Indian couple.

This is the third case since 2011 when children have been taken away from their Indian-origin parents by the authorities in Norway on the grounds of abuse.

In 2011, a three-year-old and a one-year-old were separated from their parents, prompting the then UPA government to take up the issue with Norway. The Norwegian court later allowed the children to be reunited with their parents.

In December 2012, an Indian couple was jailed on charges of ill treatment of their children, 7 and 2 years. Later, they were were sent to their grandparents in Hyderabad.