VAROONGED GANDHI?
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These tactics will lead to further divide the communities. It is becoming hopeless. Should we vote for them?
New Delhi: Varun Gandhi isn't the first or the last politician looking to harvest hate by polarising the electorate.
In the 1970s, Bal Thackeray's Shiv Sena attacked South Indians for taking away jobs from Maharashtrians, He later targeted Gujaratis, and then Muslims.
"Islamic terrorism is growing and Hindu terrorism is the only way to counter it. We need suicide bomb squads to protect India and Hindus," Thackeray wrote in 2008.
Raj Thackeray led his own hate campaign against North Indians working in Maharashtra.
"From today, Maharashtra will only celebrate Maharashtra Diwas. Other states' celebrations will simply not be allowed," said Raj in 2008.
Section 125 of the Representation of People Act says "promoting feelings of enmity or hatred between citizens in connection with elections is punishable with jail up to three years".
But no politician has ever been convicted under it.
Majlis-e-Ittihadul Muslimeen party chief Asaduddin Owaisi has frequently made sectarian speeches. In 2007, his party attacked Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen.
Uttar Pradesh Minorities Minister Mohammed Yakoob Qureshi in 2006 called for the beheading of the Danish cartoonist who had drawn a picture of Prophet Muhammed.
BJP MP from Gorakhpur Yogi Adityanath was jailed in 2007 for inciting communal violence. Adityanath has spoken against Muslims publicly several times.
"If they kill one Hindu, we'll kill hundreds of them," he once said.
BJP candidate from Bangalore South Ananth Kumar Hegde, too, threatened Muslims openly in a speech.
"If Muslims behave this way, they won't be able to celebrate their festivals," he said.
A case has been filed Congress leader Kagodu Thimmappa, also from Karnataka, for making anti-Hindutva statements.
So this General Elections will you vote for those who advocate violence? Will you vote for hate speeches?
Patna, April 6 (IANS) Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad Monday said that had he been the country’s home minister he would have run a “roller” over Varun Gandhi for his hate speeches against Muslims and bothered about the consequences later.
Speaking at an election rally in Kishanganj in Bihar, Lalu Prasad said: “If I were the country’s home minister, and if Varun had said this (inflammatory speeches), then I would have run a roller over his chest, and thought about the consequences later.”
He was addresssing a rally for the RJD’s Kishanganj candidate, Union Minister Taslimuddin, who is the sitting MP from the constituency.
Lalu Prasad also said that the move to jail Varun Gandhi, the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Pilibhit candidate, was right.
Kishanganj is 350 km from here.
Varun Gandhi is in Etah jail in Uttar Pradesh for his reported inflammatory speeches targeting Muslims.
New Delhi: First it was BJP's Varun Gandhi, then RJD's Lalu Prasad and now Congress' D Srinivas has sparked controversy with an alleged hate speech.
Srinivas, the President of Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee, has come under Election Commission scanner for allegedly delivering a hate speech.
Speaking at a rally in Nizamabad, Srinivas allagedly said that he would “severe hands of those who point a finger at minorities”.
The BJP immediately jumped at the opportunity and flayed the Congress.
“EC and media has been put on test. Now we will see if we observe double standards in dealing with similar situations or we have set rules. Now will the EC advice Congress to drop Srinivas as the candidate and also whether the AP government will arrest him under NSA? Same thing goes for Lalu Prasad Yadav. Now we have to see whether Manmohan Singh retains this man considering the PM went out of his way to pick on Varun Gandhi. It is a very dishonest defence. It is a language full of violence and I don’t see why Srinivas should be out when Varun Gandhi rests under NSA,” said BJP’s Balbir Punj.
