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Actor-turned-BJP MP Paresh Rawal has waded into a controversy with a late night tweet suggesting to use writer Arundhati Roy as a human shield in Kashmir against stone pelters.
The tweet, "instead of tying stone pelter on the army jeep tie Arundhati Roy!", posted at 11 PM on Sunday night immediately triggered an avalanche of response with several condemning it and accusing him of inciting violence.
When a person suggested that journalist Sagarika Ghosh could replace Roy, who criticises Army "excesses" in Kashmir, is unavailable, the first-time MP from Gujarat's Ahmedabad East responded, "we have a variety of choices."
He was referring to the incident where a Kashmiri youth Farooq Ahmad Dar was tied to an army jeep as a human shield against stone pelters during the Srinagar by-elections.
Roy's comments were not available but Ghosh sarcastically tweeted, "wonderful sir, too good. You really are a model parliamentarian."
One of the comments in support of Roy, whose second novel in 19 years 'The Ministry of Utmost Unhappiness', said that the comments would act as a pre-publicity for the launch of her book.
While Congress' Digvijay Singh tweeted, "Why not (tie) the person who stitched PDP-BJP alliance?", Union Textiles Minister Smriti Irani sought to distance the party from the controversial tweet.
"Nowhere will we, in any way, support any violent message by anybody, against any individual of the country," she said adding she had not seen his tweet and any answer she has given will not be fully "correct and knowledgeable".
The stand-up comedy group 'Aisi Taisi Democracy' had a sarcastic tweet on Rawal when it said, "somebody please tie a copy of 'The God of Small Things' on Actor-MP saab's car. Reading good books makes one more empathetic and tolerant."
The tweet, "instead of tying stone pelter on the army jeep tie Arundhati Roy!", posted at 11 PM on Sunday night immediately triggered an avalanche of response with several condemning it and accusing him of inciting violence.
When a person suggested that journalist Sagarika Ghosh could replace Roy, who criticises Army "excesses" in Kashmir, is unavailable, the first-time MP from Gujarat's Ahmedabad East responded, "we have a variety of choices."
He was referring to the incident where a Kashmiri youth Farooq Ahmad Dar was tied to an army jeep as a human shield against stone pelters during the Srinagar by-elections.
Roy's comments were not available but Ghosh sarcastically tweeted, "wonderful sir, too good. You really are a model parliamentarian."
One of the comments in support of Roy, whose second novel in 19 years 'The Ministry of Utmost Unhappiness', said that the comments would act as a pre-publicity for the launch of her book.
While Congress' Digvijay Singh tweeted, "Why not (tie) the person who stitched PDP-BJP alliance?", Union Textiles Minister Smriti Irani sought to distance the party from the controversial tweet.
"Nowhere will we, in any way, support any violent message by anybody, against any individual of the country," she said adding she had not seen his tweet and any answer she has given will not be fully "correct and knowledgeable".
The stand-up comedy group 'Aisi Taisi Democracy' had a sarcastic tweet on Rawal when it said, "somebody please tie a copy of 'The God of Small Things' on Actor-MP saab's car. Reading good books makes one more empathetic and tolerant."