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Bollywood actor and BJP MP Paresh Rawal has come under the scanner after a tweet from his verified Twitter account went viral. He took to Twitter to post, “Instead of tying stone pelter on the army jeep tie Arundhati Roy!” thus, instigating a lot of Netizens.
https://twitter.com/SirPareshRawal/status/866345474722320388
https://twitter.com/AuninNDTV/status/866464460298375168
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Digvijaya Singh, AICC general secretary, and Shashi Tharoor, Congress MP from Thiruvananthapuram, were among the politicians who responded to the BJP MP’s tweet. While Singh posted a question: “@SirPareshRawal Why not the person who stitched PDP/BJP alliance?”, Tharoor hinted at a possibility that Rawal might not even be aware that such a tweet from his handle is going viral. “Not sure it’s really him. I met him one day in Parliament after this account had issued a really offensive tweet about me&he was oblivious!” he tweeted.
While the actor is yet to give clarification behind the tweet from his handle, it has sure earned the wrath of many on social media. Another response from his account to someone suggesting that “if #ArundhatiRoy is not available @sagarikaghose is always available”, read “We have a wide variety of choices!”
