Actor and Bharatiya Janata Party MP Paresh Rawal has deleted his tweet suggesting that writer Arundhati Roy should be tied to an army jeep as a human shield.

He said he was 'coerced' to do so otherwise Twitter would have suspended his account.

'With this letter, I inform to all my supporters and citizens of this country that I am being coerced to delete something I tweeted on May 21, or else Twitter would block my account,' he said in a statement.

His earlier tweet, for which he was widely criticised, read, 'Instead of tying stone pelter on the army jeep tie up Arundhati Roy!', referring to the incident last month of the army in Kashmir strapping a protester to its vehicle as a human shield against stone-throwers. -- Agencies