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Paresh Rawal tweets 'Arundhati Roy should be used as a human shield', stirs row

The tweet has not gone down well on social media and Paresh Rawal has been slammed.

Paresh Rawal attacks Arundhati Roy
Paresh Rawal attacks Arundhati Roy Image Source : Twitter/Paresh Rawal
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New Delhi: Actor and BJP Lok Sabha member Paresh Rawal kicked up a storm on social media when he tweeted that the army in Jammu and Kashmir should be using author and activist Arundhati Roy rather than local “stone pelters” as a human shield. 

There is no mention of the reason behind the sudden outrage. Rawal's tweet was in reference to the incident where 26-year-old Farooq Ahmad Dar was tied to an army jeep during the Srinagar by-elections as a 'human shield against stone pelters'. This had created a lot of controversy and the incident was severely criticised. 

This is the video, Rawal was referring to.

Launching a scathing attack, Paresh Rawal targeted journalist Sagarika Ghose saying similar treatment should also be meted out to the senior journalist.

 

Sagarika Ghose responded in sarcasm. 

Arundhati Roy is a writer who shot to fame in 1997 when her novel The God of Small Things won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction. Roy is also a an activist who raises her voice for several human rights issues. 

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