Sonu Nigam supports Rawal, Abhijeet; goes off Twitter

 In what appears to be a case of solidarity, singer Sonu Nigam bid farewell to Twitter on Wednesday.

He sent out 24 tweets, explaining his exit from the microblogging site. “I bid adieu to Twitter and my close to 7 million followers today, leaving most disappointed and angry at me, and some sadists happy,” Nigam tweeted.

The decision of the 43-year-old singer, who recently wrote on the problems he faced in the morning because of ‘azaans’ and also shaved off his head following threats from fundamentalists, comes in the wake of actor-politician Paresh Rawal’s comments on writer Arundhati Roy and singer Abhijeet Bhattacharya’s account getting suspended after he targeted JNU student Shehla Rashid over her tweet against the BJP.

On the controversy involving Rawal, a BJP MP, Nigam tweeted: “A woman can endorse a picture of Gautam Gambhir in the front of the army jeep, & Paresh Rawal, criticized for doing d same to someone else. Accepted Arundhati has d right to her opinion about Kashmir, but then the other billion Indians have the right to feel Let Down too right?”

On Sunday, Rawal,referring to the use of human shields in Kashmir, had tweeted: “Instead of tying stone pelter on the army jeep tie Arundhati Roy!”

On Monday, Bhattacharya had used offensive language against Shehla and tweeted: “There is rumour she took money for two hours and didn’t satisfy the client...big racket....You Ms Pak. Tell me your cage no? Will reach there... Will do the favourite pose.”

To this, Nigam tweeted: “One could disagree with Abhijeetda’s language, but isn’t Shehla’s accusation that BJP has a sex racket, provocation enough to supporters? If his account is deleted, why not her?”

I was coerced to remove tweet: Rawal

Actor and MP Paresh Rawal on Wednesday said that he was being coerced to delete his controversial tweets against author and activist Arundhati Roy, DHNS reports from Ahmedabad.

“I inform all my supporters and citizens of the country that I am being coerced to delete something I tweeted on 21st May, or else twitter would block my account,” he was quoted as saying in a letter on Wednesday.

On May 21, the MP tweeted: “Instead of tying stone pelter on the army jeep tie Arundhati Roy!” Apparently, he also wanted the same treatment for a senior journalist.