The Week’s senior journo puts problematic tweet over BJP office bombing; deletes tweet after backlash

On Feb 10th, a petrol bomb was hurled at the BJP office ‘Kamalaalayam’ which is situated in T. Nagar, Chennai. While this happened in the wee hours in the presence of the Tamil Nadu police, the police present had also cleaned the spot where the petrol bombs landed.

One person named ‘Karukka’ Vinod has been arrested in connection with the incident. Reports have stated that Vinod is a history sheeter with a track record of violence. Meanwhile, the BJP had demanded a probe by the National Investigative Agency (NIA) after several reports of attack against party’s cadres.

In view of this case yesterday, a Senior Special Correspondent from The Week, Lakshmi Subramanian, took to twitter to convey her opinion on the case. She said in Tamil, “The place is not even worthy of bombings, idiots.” The tweet came immediately after this happening, and indirectly referred to the Kamalaalayam.

A netizen has now rightly asked, “If some places are not even worth for bombing, can The Week clarify which places are worthy of bombing?” After this pointing out, the journalist has deleted the tweet from her account. The statement however, justifies bombings, as far as the place is ‘worthy’ of it.

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