By Ila Ananya
BJP Lok Sabha member and actor Paresh Rawal took to Twitter yesterday to tell everybody about his opinions because it was a Matter of Great Importance.
In a completely random tweet, Rawal announced that he believed that author and activist Arundhati Roy should have been used as a human shield and tied to the army jeep instead of a “stone pelter”.
Why? Nobody knows and nobody cares, because there’s nothing that can justify his statements.
Rawal was referring to the horrible incident in April this year, when Farroq Ahmed Dar was tied to an army jeep by Major Nitin Gogoi during the Srinagar by-elections. He was then paraded around in several towns as a human shield against stone pelters, and Rawal has insisted on calling him a stone pelter as though everything was justified with that.
Instead of tying stone pelter on the army jeep tie Arundhati Roy !
— Paresh Rawal (@SirPareshRawal) May 21, 2017
We have a wide variety of choices ! https://t.co/rpciWyhLha
— Paresh Rawal (@SirPareshRawal) May 21, 2017
Then Rawal went on to endorse another tweet (that was a response to his), claiming we had a “wide variety of choices” and that journalist Sagarika Ghose should get the same “treatment.” What does it matter to Rawal that he was inciting violence against two women on a public forum? Kuch nahin, why should he care. Anyway, many twitter users told him to please keep quiet and stop inciting lynch mobs and violence.
Perhaps Rawal was watching Republic TV last night, and that’s where his inspiration came from, since mister Arnab Goswami was also holding forth about the “stone pelter” and was shouting about everyone on his manel who condemned this as being anti-national and all that jazz, which we’re all too familiar with by now. Screechy birds of a feather flock together.
May 22, 2017 at 11:58 pm
The statement by Paresh Rawal is not from fringe element, this is the opinion of all the Indians who love their country, who are recognizing the sacrifices of armed forces. The anti national statement of Arundhati Roy is nothing less than the offense of stone pelters, out rightly offensive to any one who loves his or her country. She should have been in the jail long back along with all anti national and terrorist elements. If someone cannot love her country, which has given so much to her, she cannot love any one. There is no difference between anti nationals, if she is a female or male. Diggy has always supported anti national forces and terror elements and his support to another anti national is nothing surprising. After garnering sympathy from public so long in his termination from service, Sanjiv Bhat has shown his true colour by supporting anti India supporter arundhati. His selfish interest become more important than the country’s interest. Just because Kashmir become majority for some community due to centuries of forced conversion and ethnic cleansing, some anti national forces including arundhati or diggy along with anti nationals and terrorist supporter cannot separate from India. There is a country created in 1947 for separatist in the basis of religion which is now hot bed of terrorists. Those supporting terror elements and anti nationals from any part of our country from Kashmir to Kanyakumari, must cross the boarder and stay happily in that country. Government should keep those elements in the jail and should take away all the rights of an Indian citizen if they do not cross the boarder. We as Indian, who love our country, strongly support the action suggested by Mr Paresh Rawal for any anti national forces.
May 24, 2017 at 12:37 pm
Mr. Umesh Dash, while your sentiments towards the nation are very praiseworthy, please don’t give in to generic statements that so blatantly overlook the truth. Being critical of the government is not equivalent to being anti-national which is what Arundhati’s stand is. If that ‘Dr.’ before your name is true, one would expect you to be a lot more informed about your opinion. Please read her essays and articles t get a clearer picture of her ‘anti-nationalism’.