New Delhi: Even as the pandemic rages across the country with many losing their loved ones to the virus, Mithilesh Kumar Tiwari, a member of the ruling BJP, passed a highly objectionable comment on the death of CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury’s son Ashish Yechury, who had Covid-19.
Tiwari, a former MLA, is the vice president of the Bihar BJP.
While President Ram Nath Kovind, Vice President Venkaiah Naidu, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi, and many other politicians expressed their condolences on Twitter, Tiwari put out a tweet calling Yechury a ‘Chinese supporter’ and linked this to the outbreak of the coronavirus.
National Conference vice president and former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah called out Tiwari, saying: “It takes a special category of ___________ to gloat over the death of a person’s son. You can always rely on someone in the BJP to set the bar so low that a snake wouldn’t be able to slither under it.”
It takes a special category of ___________ to gloat over the death of a person’s son. You can always rely on someone in the BJP to set the bar so low that a snake wouldn’t be able to slither under it. pic.twitter.com/t1wtbCjxna
— Omar Abdullah (@OmarAbdullah) April 22, 2021
Tiwari deleted the offensive tweet following a backlash. Many users of the microblogging site also hit out at the BJP member for his comments calling it “disgusting”.
Now tweet deleted but can sense the feelings how inhuman and how illiterate these people are ?
SHAMELESS DISGUSTING pic.twitter.com/vSCMX58KA6
— Kamalbagga@ (@Kamalbagga15) April 22, 2021
Tiwari has over 12,000 followers on Twitter and is followed by Kapil Mishra, Manoj Tiwari and Bhupender Yadav among prominent BJP leaders.
Ashish Yechury, who would have turned 35 years old this summer, died Thursday morning after a two-week battle with the disease. He was working as an editor with a Delhi-based media outlet.
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That Indian political parties hurl invective at each other rather than engaging in polite, constructive debate is no news. But, usually, even these otherwise uncouth, itchy-testicled Neanderthals shied away from disrespecting the dead and the grieving. But clearly, the BJP has now has a newer and more nasty dimension to its Hindutva ideology and sinks to the depths that even animals don’t. This vulture Mithilesh Kumar Tiwari represents one such evolution. This shift in the Hindutva ideology to the more base and bizarre is getting more and more widespread. Thus, one had Adityanath, the saffron wearing thug and founder of the ragtag Hindu Yuva Vahini who endorsed the idea of dragging out the corpses of dead Muslim women to rape them.
Welcome to Modistan !
What else can u expect from such scrums. Their whole families should get Corona for them realize the pain and suffering of others
Why are such scums of the BJP not removed yet from the Party ??? Shall we wait for such scums to get Bharat Ratna ??? Why no action from PM Modi and Amit Shah on such cheap comment . Only such people thrive in the BJP sadly
Condolences to the Yechuri family.
Now to the point. When Congressis were abusing the army chief and PM Modi, was any action taken against them? Why this one-sided outrage against the BJP person? He did wrong, no doubt, but don’t show your anti-BJP bias.
What sort of a human are you? Really ,The bar has been set really low,forget snakes,only scum and kitano can slide through.You need a reality check and pronto.
Yes. Tiwari’s tweet is condemnable. But why The print is selective?Why always go after BJP? Why the latest tweet of Sashi Tharoor about the former Speaker of Lok Sabha did not attract the notice ThePrint, becos he is not a BJP man. Amazing journalism.
Unfortunate some one succumbed to COVID-19. But nothing wrong to say Yechury had China connection.
Where’s that tweet ? How do i know if it’s not true?
We wish Tiwari,s whole family gets bitten by the Indian variant or the Chinese one as he and his family ,one group less on this planet will create more food and space for many poor ones
LEFT VULTURES CREATING MOUNTAIN OF MOLE HILL AND SELF GLORIFYING THEIR SHIT INTELLECT. ISN’T YECHURY A CHINA PLANT? HASN’T THE DEATH CAUSED BY CHINA VIRUS VIRUS. THESE ROTTEN ANTI NATIONALS MODI HATERS ARE JUST BURNING BY SUCCESS OF PRO NATIONALS. THEY ARE NO LONGER RELEVANT.
Medanta is a good hospital for the poor and proletariat.
Nothing wrong in the statement. Yechury was on China tour before Covid.
Jokking and enjoying does not take anything from anyone. But when heaven befalls it leaves everyone in devastation. Hold yourself always humble.