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Tripura governor sparks row with tweets on Yakub
Image credit: Tathagata Roy Twitter Handle

Tripura governor sparks row with tweets on Yakub

India Blooms News Service | | 31 Jul 2015, 04:30 pm
New Delhi, July 31 (IBNS): Tripura Governor Tathagata Roy on Friday sparked a new controversy with his series of tweets on 1993 Mumbai blasts convict Yakub Memon, who was hanged on Thursday morning in Nagpur Central Jail.

He said the mourners of Yakub Memon were potential terrorists who must now be keenly watched by the intelligence agencies.


"Governors ought to be concerned abt security of state. Intelligence keeping tab on Yakub's mourners is preventing terror. Better than cure." Roy tweeted.
 
Clarifying his remark, he posted: "When I suggested 'intelligence keeping a tab',I mentiond NO COMMUNITY. So how come I'm accused of being 'communal bigot'? Guilty conscience?"
 
Roy received strong criticisms for his remarks.
 
Justifying his tweets, Roy wrote: "Oh,what an explosion! I am gratified! But consider seriously: 1.Did I talk abt any community? 2. Did I ask for action or just keeping tabs?"

"It is my Constitutional duty to bring matters of public interest to public notice. My position as Governor is not thereby compromised," he added.

Yakub, who perhaps was being torn between hopes and despair in the last few hours of his life as the Supreme Court opened at 3 AM on Thursday for an unprecedented hearing on his petition to stop execution, was finally hanged a little before 7 am.

Yakub was buried in a graveyard in Mahim in Mumbai amid heavy security.

 

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