A Tweet Attributed To Indian External Affairs Minister On India’s Willingness To Proclaim Sri Lanka As A State Of India!
FACT CHECK: Did India’s Foreign Minister Offer To Make Sri Lanka ‘A State Of India’? An image shared on Facebook allegedly shows a tweet from Indian External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar offering to make Sri Lanka a part of India. [...] "If the people of Sri Lanka are agreeable, India is willing to proclaim that Sri Lanka becomes a State of India," the purported tweet reads. "As a result, India will be able to solve the gas, fuel, milk food, fertilizer and many other essential goods problems that the country is facing." The tweet also promised the country would "look after all the future issues" of the country, calling the offer a "hand of survival."