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First Gauri Lankesh, now Ryan school: The irresistible urge to communalise murder

BJP MP Paresh Rawal on Sunday got called out on Twitter for playing fast and loose with facts

Gauri Lankesh, last tributes, Siddaramaiah
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Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah pays last tributes to the mortal ramains of senior journalist Gauri Lankesh in Bengaluru.

Karnika Kohli | The Wire
BJP MP Paresh Rawal on Sunday got called out on Twitter for playing fast and loose with facts.

The MP, who was forced to delete an outrageous tweet about author Arundhati Roy in May, tweeted: “Maj Sandip Unnikrishnan who [was] martyred in Mumbai Taj attack was from Banglore, was not given 21 gun salute by the state!”

This was meant to be in contrast to the speculation that the Congress government in Karnataka had given the assassinated journalist Gauri Lankesh a state funeral.

Screenshot of BJP MP Paresh Rawal’s tweet.

In reality, Major Unnikrishnan, the