evidence: Fact Check: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar's tweet offering to absorb Sri Lanka into India is FAKE [...] Amid this, a screenshot of a tweet purportedly from India’s external affair minister Dr. S Jaishankar has gone viral. The viral image claims that India wants to make Sri Lanka part of itself, in exchange for solving its economic crisis. This supposed tweet read, "If the people of Sri Lanka are agreeable, India is willing to proclaim that Sri Lanka becomes a State of India."