If a goon can be UP CM, Dawood can be CBI director: Shirish Kunder on Yogi Adityanath

“Hoping a goon will stop rioting once he’s allowed to rule is like expecting a rapist to stop raping once he’s allowed to rape. Going by the logic of making a goon as CM so that he behaves, Dawood can be CBI director. And Mallya - RBI Governor,” Shrish tweeted.

Filmmaker Shirish Kunder found himself cornered for a mean jab at Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath, whose elevation to the post has triggered a Twitter explosion with people pouring posies and poison in equal parts.

Shirish Kunder, who took a rather mean jab at the BJP leader

Some compared the Yogi with Hollywood star Vin Diesel; others criticized his hardnosed Hindu right-wing image. Kunder called him a goon.

“Hoping a goon will stop rioting once he’s allowed to rule is like expecting a rapist to stop raping once he’s allowed to rape,” he tweeted.

And he posted a second: “Going by the logic of making a goon as CM so that he behaves, Dawood can be CBI director. And Mallya - RBI Governor.”

That was Kunder’s response to writer Chetan Bhagat’s tweet after the BJP leadership chose the five-term parliamentarian for Gorakhpur and head priest of Gorakhnath mutt to head the government in India’s most populous and politically sensitive state.

“#YogiAdityanath as UP CM. Because when you make the naughtiest guy in class the class monitor, he behaves the best,” Bhagat had tweeted.

Meanwhile, the Yogi’s official twitter handle is growing at a rate of about 200 followers a minute.

Follow @htshowbiz for more