BC Green Party Leader Sonia Furstenau announced on Twitter Wednesday night that deputy leader Dr. Sanjiv Gandhi, who was appointed last January, had been removed after liking a social media post that compared Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry to Nazi doctor Josef Mengele.

Furstenau wrote: “Today, I was made aware of Dr. Sanjiv Gandhi, deputy leader, liking a tweet with an inappropriate comparison between our provincial health officer and Mengele. I find this unacceptable and I have removed Dr. Gandhi as deputy leader and accepted his resignation as a candidate [in Vancouver-Renfrew].”

Gandhi, a former B.C. Children’s Hospital pediatric cardiovascular and thoracic surgeon, was appointed as the party’s second deputy leader.