Yakub Memon Hanged: Why Ram Gopal Varma says, 'Gandhiji would have hanged his grandson today'

Mumbai, July 30: Ram Gopal Varma (RGV) once again made headlines and this time he is new over his comment on Mahatma Gandhi's grandson Tushar Gandhi.

RGV, while writing on micro-blogging site Twitter, claimed that Mahatma Gandhi would have hanged Tushar Gandhi. The Bollywood director's statement surfaced hours after Tushar Gandhi's appearance on a TV news channel.

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Tushar Gandhi, during a debate on Yakub Memon's death sentence, claimed that capital punishment should be abolished from the country. He was quoted as saying, "This is nothing but judiciary-sanctioned murder and (it) must be abolished."

"I am opposed to death penalty because execution is like evil countering evil and two evils cannot make a good. It is a medieval, barbaric practice to bring the accused of a crime to justice," Tushar Gandhi said.

Hours after Tushar Gandhi's statement on TV, RGV tweeted, "Sympathy of certain people on Memon is because in his pics he looks normal like any of us whereas the dead 257 people are just a number.

"I wish we can see pic of Memon along with pics of all murdered 257 people laid side by side..Only then his horrificness can be understood (sic)," added RGV.

Here are a few tweets tweeted by RGV:

Sympathy of certain people on Memon is becos in his pics he looks normal like any of us whereas the dead 257 ppl are just a number

— Ram Gopal Varma (@RGVzoomin) July 29, 2015

I wish we can see pic of Memon along with pics of all murdered 257 people laid side by side..Only then his horrificness can be understood

— Ram Gopal Varma (@RGVzoomin) July 29, 2015

If he heard Tushar Gandhi's imbecilities on Yakub, Mahatma Gandhi himself wud hav not only slapped Tushar,but wud hav punched him in stomach

— Ram Gopal Varma (@RGVzoomin) July 29, 2015

I so wish the Mahatma was alive to slap his great grandson Tushar for so foolishly misunderstanding the very concept of nonviolence

— Ram Gopal Varma (@RGVzoomin) July 29, 2015

Seeing Tushar gandhi talk on Times now on Yakub am so glad he was not fighting British ..if so we would have been still under British

— Ram Gopal Varma (@RGVzoomin) July 29, 2015

Whether Tushar Gandhi is imbecile or retard or whatever,he for sure is a embarrassment..Am so glad Mahatma wasn't here 2 see Times now today

— Ram Gopal Varma (@RGVzoomin) July 29, 2015

If Mahatma Gandhi would have seen his great grandson Tushar Gandhi on Times Now tonite he would have renounced Non violence and hanged him

— Ram Gopal Varma (@RGVzoomin) July 29, 2015

Mahatma Gandhi would have put the country first against his imbecile great grandson and would have given all us Indians justice

— Ram Gopal Varma (@RGVzoomin) July 29, 2015

Yakub Memon, the 1993 blasts convicts, has been hanged in Nagpur Central Jail on Thursday, July 30. His body has taken to Mumbai where his final rites will be performed by his family members.

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