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BJP MP Paresh Rawal on Sunday got called out on Twitter for playing fast and loose with facts


Latest news     :   BJP MP Paresh Rawal on Sunday got called out on Twitter for playing fast and loose with facts.

The MP, who was forced to delete an outrageous tweet about author Arundhati Roy in May, tweeted: “Maj Sandip Unnikrishnan who [was] martyred in Mumbai Taj attack was from Banglore, was not given 21 gun salute by the state!”

This was meant to be in contrast to the speculation that the Congress government in Karnataka had given the assassinated journalist Gauri Lankesh a state funeral.

Screenshot of BJP MP Paresh Rawal’s tweet.

In reality, Major Unnikrishnan, the 31-year-old National Security Guard officer who sacrificed his life fighting terrorists at Mumbai’s Taj Hotel during the 26/11 attack, was cremated with full honours and a 21-gun salute, according to news reports of the time, in Bangalore on November 29, 2008.

Hundreds had gathered to bid farewell to the officer who, trapped in a corner at the Taj, had refused to be rescued lest the effort endanger his men.

Screenshot of BJP MP Paresh Rawal’s tweet.

Since journalist Gauri Lankesh’s assassination, the Right wing has been working in overdrive to try and change the ‘courageous journalist targeted for her anti-communal views’ narrative around the story.

First, pro-Hindutva social media warriors labeled her a Maoist sympathiser, applauded her death, claimed “she got what she deserved”, and bashed media and ‘pseudo-liberals’ for questioning the RSS and BJP’s role in the shooting. (read more)

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