She has called for training of female MPs to deal with such vicious online trolling.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s niece Tulip told The Sunday Times: “I have had horrendous abuse... ranging from, ‘Why aren’t you wearing a hijab?’ to ‘If I could I would kill you’.”
The young Hampstead and Kilburn MP from a Muslim family said she first received online abuse during the general election campaign in 2014, when she was trolled because of her Bangladeshi heritage.
She claimed she was told: “The young people of Hampstead will never vote for someone with a name like yours.”
Alongside congratulations, the daughter of the Bangabandhu’s younger daughter Sheikh Rehana received criticism for having a baby during her first year in Parliament.
The Labour MP told The Sunday Times, “Women - or their Twitter profiles said they were women - said things like, ‘Make up your mind, you are either a mother or an MP, you can’t do both’.”
She said she has considered using her married name online to deter some of the racist and religious insults she receives: “I do sometimes wonder if I was Tulip Percy on Twitter whether it would be as bad,” The Sunday Times reported.
Tulip married Percy in 2013 when she was a councillor for Regents Park.
She also claimed that several female MPs who are frequent targets for trolls have formed an unofficial support group.