Tejasvi Surya is the youngest BJP contestant for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. His candidature was announced with much funfare on Tuesday.

Nominated from the Bangalore South constituency, the 28-year-old took to Twitter to celebrate and promised to be a “committed ambassador of PM Narendra Modi”.

And ironically, that’s what got Twitter users interested in his old tweets.

Surya may be young, but tweets that Twitter users dug out from his past show that he is is not uncomfortable with the idea of being called a “communal fanatic”, a worrying sign in a candidate who will head to the Lok Sabha if he wins.

In these series of tweets from June 2018, Surya explains why BJP should be a “consolidated Hindu” party after the BJP lost the Jayanagar bypoll to Congress.