Chetan Bhagat denies #MeToo allegations; tweets Ira Trivedi’s ‘Kiss u Miss u’ mail

In the wake of the #MeToo movement in the country, writer Chetan Bhagat found himself in hot water as writer Ira Trivedi accused him of sexual harassment in a tweet that soon went viral on social media. The writer soon took to social media and shared a long response to the allegations.

On Monday, Chetan released a series of screenshots defending the charges levied on him. The screenshots of a ‘self-explanatory’ email were sent by Trivedi in 2013. He was quoted as saying, “A person’s reputation is their most prized asset and takes a lifetime of work to earn. To have these motivated, fake attacks on me is abhorrent and the sickest thing a person can do. Please don’t support this kind of smear campaign.”

Check out his tweet here:

So who wanted to kiss whom? @iratrivedi’s self-explanatory email from 2013 to me, esp last line, easily shows her claims from 2010 are false, and she knows this too. This mental harassment of me and my family has to stop. Please don’t harm a movement with #fakecharges #harassed pic.twitter.com/SWeaSCfHLd

— Chetan Bhagat (@chetan_bhagat) 15 October 2018

He shared screenshots of emails which Ira sent to him, which ended with ‘Miss You, Kiss You’. He asked people to decide, ‘Who wanted to kiss whom?’

He further asked people to not misuse the hashtag and to keep his family and friends away from the harassment.

To those who abused me last few days, hope you will do right by me now. Ultimately, is this movement about the truth or blindly supporting a particular gender? Please don’t let your biases make you believe things that are not true.

— Chetan Bhagat (@chetan_bhagat) 15 October 2018

The best selling author also said that “unfortunately in India no matter what or how noble the cause, it always ends up being corrupted.” Bhagat said that people have “now finally realized what is real #MeToo and what is #FakeMeToo”

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