Srinagar: Bharatiya Janata Party youth wing leader Manish Chandela, on twitter accepted to burning of Rohingya refugee camps in Delhi on twitter, following which, Senior advocate Prashant Bhushan filed complaint against him, Indian express reported.
Chandela belongs to Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM).
“No action yet by Delhi Police to register a case and arrest him and no action by BJP to remove him from the party. State of rule of law under BJP,” Bhushan tweeted.
According to Indian express, Chandela has deleted his Twitter account following backlash and intense call for action from various groups, including All India Muslim Majlis-e-Mushawarat (AIMMM), Bhushan, in his complaint, attached the screenshots of the tweet wherein Chandela claimed to have set the fire in the Rohingya camp.
On April 15, Chandela tweeted from his account, “Yes, we did it and we do again #ROHINGYA QUIT INDIA.” In a tweet about the fire in Rohingya camp, he replied, “Well done by our heroes,” when asked about it he tweeted, ” Yes we burnt the houses of Rohingya terrorists.”: reads the Indian express report.
At least 50 shanties housing Rohingya refugees in southeast Delhi’s Sarita Vihar were gutted in a fire that broke out in the wee hours of April 15. About 230 people from the Rohingya community were staying in the camp.
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