BENGALURU: A five-year old misogynistic tweet of Bengaluru South BJP MP Tejasvi Surya has returned to haunt him for the second time in two years after its screenshot went viral in Gulf countries.Surya’s tweet — purportedly quoting an interview of Pakistani-Canadian journalist and author Tarek Fatah — dates back to 2015, when he was a student. It was deleted it when it created an online furore for the first time when he decided to contest the 2019 polls.On Sunday, a screenshot of Surya’s tweet was widely circulated hours after PM Narendra Modi tweeted, “Covid-19 does not see race, religion, colour, caste, creed, language or borders before striking...” On Monday, Modi’s tweet was tagged with Surya’s by several prominent Arab nationals who considered it evidence of targeting the Muslim community. It soon went viral and by evening it was trending with over 15,000 users commenting and sharing it.Mejbel Al Sharika, a Kuwaiti lawyer and director of International Human Rights, wrote, “Dear @Twitter, this Indian politicians @Tejasvi_Surya has racially slurred Arab women, I wonder how is his account still active? Is it not against Twitter’s official policy? Please act as Arab sentiment has been badly wounded.”“The ruling family is friends with Indians, but as a royal your rudeness is not welcome,” tweeted Princess Hend Al Qassimi , a member of the UAE royal family, referring to both the countries’ warm relations and ‘Islamophobic’ attacks. “All employees are paid to work, no one comes for free. You make your bread and butter from this land which you scorn and your ridicule will not go unnoticed.”Earlier last week, one Saurabh Upadhyay had posted several tweets targeting Muslims over the March congregation of Tablighi Jamaat in New Delhi that led to a spike in the number of Covid-19 cases in India. The person is supposedly an NRI with business interests in the UAE.To calm nerves, the Indian ambassador to the UAE, Pavan Kapoor , tweeted on Monday, “India and UAE share the value of non-discrimination on any grounds. Discrimination is against our moral fabric and the Rule of law. Indian nationals in the UAE should always remember this.”