Ram Gopal Varma has openly promoted his views on 1993 blasts accused Yakub Memon. He posted on Twitter, “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.” Adding, “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).” Irked by people against the conviction, with a series of tweets he specifically targeted social activist Tushar Gandhi for opposing Yakub Memon's execution. “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.”