Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi.
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Narendra Modi may be bumped off, says Madhu Kishwar
Gujarat Chief MinisterNarendra Modifaces an assassination attempt, writer-academic Madhu Kishwar said on Twitter, creating a flutter on social media and political circles.
"Yesterday met some senior govt officers who said Modi's assassination real possibility if Teesta Congress fail to get fraud FIR against Modi," the senior fellow at Centre for the Study of Developing Societies tweeted on Wednesday.
Teesta in the post refers to rights activist Teesta Setalvad, who has been fighting Modi, a BJP leader, over the 2002 Gujarat riots.
After the tweet went viral, Kishwar deleted it but reposted it on Thursday saying: "Now that its all over the place and I'm facing endless flak, I decided to repost my deleted tweet."
She then added: "I repeat: reliable source of central govt said if Teesta doesn't succeed in getting false FIR agnst modi, he's in danger of being bumped off."
"Why would there be violence by my sharing bit of information abt modi I got from reliable source? Everyone knows he's under threat," she tweeted.
"I didn't panic for me after modi threat tweet. I got panic messages from well wishers saying people going crazy. But I stand by every word," she wrote on the micro-blogging site.