Actor-politician Hema Malini is being criticized as insensitive for her tweets on what she calls "senseless suicides".  


"The world admires a fighter not a loser," the BJP lawmaker says in one of the tweets posted on Monday night. The choice of words has drawn strong feedback days after the suicide of Ballika Vadhu actress Pratyusha Banerjee.

The 24-year-old was found hanging at her Mumbai home on April 1. Hema Malini does not mention Pratyusha in her tweets.

The MP from Mathura tweeted: "All these senseless suicides which achieve nothg! Life is God's gift for us to live not for us to take at will. We have no right to do that.

"One must learn to overcome all odds & emerge successful,not succumb under pressure & give up easily.The world admires a fighter not a loser."

Pratyusha Banerjee, a familiar face on TV from the serials Balika Vadhu and Sasural Simar Ka and reality show Bigg Boss, was declared dead at Kokilaben Ambani Hospital, where she was taken after being found dead at her Goregaon apartment. Her fiance Rahul Raj Singh, currently in hospital himself being treated for chest pain and low blood pressure, has been questioned by cops.