Modi 'assassination' plot: Gadkari vs Shehla Rashid war of words on social media
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New Delhi: A sarcastic tweet by JNU student activist Shehla Rashid seems to have provoked BJP as Union Minister Nitin Gadkar said that he would take legal action over the 'allegation'.
In the post Rashid had said: "Looks like RSS/Gadkari is planning to assassinate Modi, and then blame it upon Muslims/Communists and then lynch Muslims.
Without naming Shehla, Gadkari tweeted that he would take legal action against "anti-social elements" attributing "personal motives to him."
Rashid then hit back saying that the Union minister was getting worked up over a sarcastic tweet, and asked him to think about what JNU leader Umar Khalid might be going through "after a baseless media assault on him and his father." She then asked if Gadkari would also "take action against Rahul Shivashankar."
Pune police had claimed a seizure of letter dated 18 April this year from five people arrested in connection with the Bhima Koregaon violence in which they talk of a "plot" to assassinate prime minister Narendra Modi in a "Rajiv Gandhi-type" attack.
Last week, Umar Khalid had filed a complaint with the Delhi Police alleging that he received death threats from a man who identified himself as fugitive gangster Ravi Pujari.