A Delhi BJP leader blamed for last year’s communal riots tweeted that Father Stan Swamy deserved to be punished but later deleted the tweet.
Kapil Mishra, a former AAP minister and current BJP rabble-rouser celebrated by Hindutva extremists, had tweeted on Monday: “Very sad about the natural death of #StanSwamy. He deserved punishment by the law for the heinous crimes he committed against humanity and the nation.”
On Tuesday, the tweet vanished.
Asked, Mishra told The Telegraph: “I generally delete after 24 hours because some people try to report. I stand by what I said yesterday.”
Replying to a question on whether his party asked him to delete the tweet, Mishra said: “He (Fr Stan) was in jail for planning to kill the PM of India. I don’t think even remotely there is a chance of sympathy in the BJP for a Naxalite…” like Stan Swamy.