Parupalli Kashyap, the 30-year-old Indian badminton player, has tweeted to Sushma Swaraj, Minister of External Affairs, regarding the processing of his visa. Kashyap, in his tweet on Tuesday afternoon, requested her to issue the visa at the earliest for three badminton players including him, HS Pronoy and Sikki Reddy.
@SushmaSwaraj @MEAQuery @VijayGoelBJP pic.twitter.com/A7dbKCyK6o
— Parupalli Kashyap (@parupallik) July 4, 2017The trio will be going for major tournaments abroad on July 6. They are in need to get their visa done for travelling to New Zealand.
"As we have to leave for tournaments on July 6 to Canada and US Opens, we require passports urgently. Ma’am, I request you to help us in this matter so that we can travel on July 6," said Kashyap in his tweet.
In reply to one of the queries made by a Twitterati regarding the reason behind applying for the visa in the last minute, Kashyap answered, “The invitation from organisers comes a month before the game. We were unable to submit our passport as we are in another tourney playing in a different country."
1)Invitation letter from the organisers comes a month before. 2) unable to submit passprt as we are in another tourney in a diff country .
— Parupalli Kashyap (@parupallik) July 4, 2017It is not the first time Kashyap has communicated with the External Affairs Minister through Twitter. On June 10, he thanked Sushma Swaraj after he got his passport done for travelling to Canada.
Passport received!! Thank you Ma'am @SushmaSwaraj and thank you @VFSGlobal #CanadianConsulateBangalore @MEAQuery #peace 🙏🙏😊 pic.twitter.com/GEXzEK3xcx
— Parupalli Kashyap (@parupallik) June 10, 2017