Swara Bhaskar’s post against Paresh Rawal’s brutal tweet for author Arundhati Roy has created a Twitter storm.
Paresh Rawal’s tweet against author Arundhati Roy has created quite a buzz on social media. Racking up a Twitter storm, his jibe at the 55-year-old writer ballooned up the entire issue and brought in an air of cut-throat debate. Drawing parallels with a Kashmiri stone pelter who was tied to an Army jeep, Rawal said that Roy should suffer the same fate (read more here). Soon after, many other celebrities joined in the controversy. While activist Ashoke Pandit backed him, film-maker Vivek Agnihotri criticised his tweet. It is, however, actress Swara Bhaskar’s post on Facebook and Twitter that invited a lot of attention.
Slamming the BJP MP, Bhaskar wrote: “Wow!!!!!!! A Parliamentarian has the shamelessness to openly threaten a woman and call for a brutal act of violence on Twitter. Disgusting!” and added, “Literally the most shameful irresponsible display of callous violence mongering I saw today. Shameful that such people are in the parliament.”
Retweeted Swara Bhasker (@ReallySwara):
Wow!!!!!!! A Parliamentarian has the shamelessness to openly threaten a… https://t.co/Nkw2KBJVts
— Krishna Prasad (@KrishnaBPrasad) May 23, 2017
Literally the most shameful irresponsible display of callous violence mongering I saw today. Shameful that such people are in the parliament https://t.co/4UsN91hERV
— Swara Bhasker (@ReallySwara) May 22, 2017
Soon after she expressed her views, Twitter users started trolling her by asking her to “stop playing the woman’s card” and “reminding her that she was the one who came out in support of the JNU students earlier”. Not one to mince words, she fought back relentlessly with the allegations aimed against her. Read the tweets here.
The statement is crass and condemnable on its own, but please don't play the woman card here. It's like crying wolf.
— Rishabh Mukherjee (@rishabhm) May 22, 2017
Not the woman card bro! The Constitution card the Law card the lawmaker card the decency card the humanity card, the civilised person card.. https://t.co/QiVgB8MolV
— Swara Bhasker (@ReallySwara) May 22, 2017
Dont take shadow of gender to fight. He has not told naked.
— KMSINGH (@km75singh) May 22, 2017
Oh thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!???????? Very gracious of him.. and you! ?? #MoreShamelessBhakts https://t.co/jUmzFVvTk0
— Swara Bhasker (@ReallySwara) May 22, 2017
Says the one who cried her lungs out in support of the so called 'freedom of expression' of #JNU's terrorists, shouting #Aazaadi slogans. https://t.co/rxw9LNS2Pd
— Raj Pandit (@rajpandit17) May 23, 2017
Sir calling out for an act of physical assault and violence is not freedom of expression- it amounts to an act of crime. #UseThyBrain https://t.co/bsnguqNyK4
— Swara Bhasker (@ReallySwara) May 23, 2017
And calling out for #BharatKiBarbaadi and disintegration of the nation, is not a an 'act of crime' as per thy brains? https://t.co/Wane8NjPHZ
— Raj Pandit (@rajpandit17) May 23, 2017
No actually 'allegedly' calling out for the destruction of an entity in a generic sense is NOT the same as threatening an individual 1/2 https://t.co/g6OH52bw3L
— Swara Bhasker (@ReallySwara) May 23, 2017
Existing person. Also #ArundhatiRoy never called for #BharatKiBarbaadi – your tweet is misleading and irresponsible sir. Also goodbye! 2/2 https://t.co/g6OH52bw3L
— Swara Bhasker (@ReallySwara) May 23, 2017
She then gave it back to her trolls with this meme, which perfectly laid out what she wanted to say.
To all my #trolls & #haters with love & common sense 🙂 via @ChildhoodRuiner #TheGoodComedy #instagram pic.twitter.com/IXKA79Ji7B
— Swara Bhasker (@ReallySwara) May 23, 2017
Well, that’s not the end of the story. The 29-year-old actress also went on to post a long message against Rawal’s tweets on Facebook. Take a look at the post here.
