An Agra resident who had “devoted his life” to Narendra Modi and had proclaimed that the Prime Minister followed him on Twitter, has passed away from Covid complications after his sister’s direct appeal to the leader on social media for medical help allegedly went unheeded.

Amit Jaiswal Jain, 42, who according to some media reports threatened to beat up anybody even remotely critical of Modi, died in a Mathura hospital on April 29, 10 days after testing positive for Covid and four days after his sister Sonu Alagh had appealed to the Prime Minister and Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Twitter for help to procure remdesivir and ensure proper treatment.

The sister had tweeted from Jaiswal’s Twitter handle on April 25: “Myself Sonu Alagh, Mr Amit Jaiswal’s sister. This is to inform that we are facing issues regarding arrangement of Ramdesivir (sic) and treatment. He is admitted in NAYATI hospital, Mathura. We need your help. He is not well.” Sonu had tagged @PMOIndia, @narendramodi and @myogiadityanath.

Late on Wednesday, Jaiswal’s Twitter account could no longer be found on the microblogging site.

Sonu disconnected the phone when this newspaper called her up on Wednesday evening, only saying: “I don’t know anything.”

A source close to the family said Sonu and her husband Rajendra had torn a poster of Modi that adorned Jaiswal’s car and also taken down a hoarding bearing a picture of the leader in front of his house.

Rajendra told The Print web portal: “Amit ne poori zindagi PM Modi ke liye nikal di. Modi ne uske liye kya kiya? Aise PM sahab ki humein kya zaroorat? Humne poster phaadh ke nikaal diya (Amit spent his entire life fighting for PM Modi. What did Modi do for him? We tore off his poster).”

The source close to the family said Jaiswal, who used to trade in hoardings and banners, and his mother Raj Kamal needed hospitalisation but could not find a bed in Agra.

“They could be admitted only after four days in a Mathura hospital. He died on April 29 and his mother on May 9. He had devoted his life to Modi but the Prime Minister ditched him. The first thing his sister did after returning to Agra on Monday was that she tore Modi’s poster from her brother’s car and brought down a small hoarding with the Prime Minister’s picture in front of their house,” the source said.

“Amit used to attend shakhas of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh every day. Some RSS workers had visited the family in Agra on Tuesday to express their condolence and cursed Modi for being so selfish,” the source claimed.

The New York Times had in a report on February 4, 2020, said that Jaiswal wanted the Adityanath government to add a chapter in schoolbooks on Nathuram Godse, the assassin of Mahatma Gandhi.

“Amit Jaiswal Jain, an advertising professional in the town of Agra, believes Godse is a hero because he tried to stop Gandhi’s push for India to help the newly formed Pakistan,” the newspaper had report. It had quoted Jaiswal as saying: “Gandhi should be respected but the new India should not tolerate the castigation of Godse.”