First Gauri Lankesh, now Ryan school: The irresistible urge to communalise murder
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. Hundre...