The writer Arundhati Roy has long been a critic of right-wing politics and of army presence in Kashmir. On 17 May 2017, the actor and BJP member of Parliament Paresh Rawal tweeted that Arundhati Roy had said in an interview given in Srinagar to a Pakistani journalist that ‘the 70-lakh strong Indian Army cannot defeat the azadi gang of Kashmir’. And in a subsequent tweet he wrote, ‘Instead of tying stone pelter on the army jeep tie Arundhati Roy.’ He was referring to the incident of an unarmed Kashmiri civilian being tied to the front of a jeep by some Indian Army jawans as a human shield
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