National Award-winning actor, Padma Shri and parliamentarian Paresh Rawal took to Twitter last night and wrote that instead of a stone pelter, eminent author and political activist Arundhati Roy should be tied to an army jeep.

This comes in the wake of a video that went viral last month which showed a young man tied to the front of an Indian Army vehicle, being paraded in a village in the Budgam district of central Kashmir, as an apparent warning to stone pelters. Jammu and Kashmir opposition leader Omar Abdullah tweeted the video in April, requesting for an "urgent inquiry and follow up".

This young man was TIED to the front of an army jeep to make sure no stones were thrown at the jeep? This is just so shocking!!!! #Kashmir pic.twitter.com/bqs4YJOpJc - Omar Abdullah (@abdullah_omar) April 14, 2017

Here's the video as well. A warning can be heard saying stone pelters will meet this fate. This requires an urgent inquiry & follow up NOW!! pic.twitter.com/qj1rnCVazn - Omar Abdullah (@abdullah_omar) April 14, 2017

Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) Paresh Rawal became a Member of Parliament (MP) from the Ahmedabad East constituency during the 2014 Indian general election. The BJP in coalition with PDP (Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party) is currently in power in the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly.

Arundhati Roy became a household name in 1997 when her novel The God of Small Things won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction. Since then, she has been an extremely vocal political activist, often highlighting human rights issues within the country and beyond, inviting ire from the Centre. Her new novel, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, is expected to hit the stands and bookstores next month.

Paresh Rawal, seldom violent in his tweets, asked for Arundhati Roy to be a tied to an army jeep instead of a stone pelter.

This invited criticism from Twitterati who alleged that a Parliamentarian was inciting mob violence.

A member of parliament, a lawmaker inciting lynch mobs? A theatre artist & film actor exhorting violence against an author! Shame on you. https://t.co/AysMEMOKda - Rakesh Sharma (@rakeshfilm) May 22, 2017

And he is our lawmaker and my favourite actor as well ?????? https://t.co/N2pVLyppky - S l Habib (@irfhabib) May 22, 2017

Fantasies of violence against women are the surest sign of cowardice.And of cow-ards we have no lack. https://t.co/zfBDPF4u60 - Omair Ahmad (@OmairTAhmad) May 21, 2017

This is Hindutva in its pristine elements. An actor-parliamentarian proudly and publicly ignorant, bigoted & unconstitutional. https://t.co/MAbMSBZ4oK - Rohin Dharmakumar (@r0h1n) May 22, 2017

And next year if she wins the Booker, Rawal and his likes will be jumping and claiming her daughter of India, etc. https://t.co/veKYD7vlD5 - Aseem Chhabra (@chhabs) May 22, 2017

Member of Parliament inciting mobs! https://t.co/Ala6kh2qqW - Swati Chaturvedi (@bainjal) May 22, 2017

That is an incitement to violence. Probably actionable criminally https://t.co/hySdkiLf3K - SANJAY HEGDE (@sanjayuvacha) May 21, 2017

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