At the very least two complaints have been filed towards ruling Bharatiya Janata Celebration (BJP) lawmaker Pragya Singh Thakur over her alleged hate speech in Karnataka’s Shivamogga on Sunday.
Trinamool Congress chief Saket Gokhale filed a criticism with Shivamogga Police superintendent GK Mithun Kumar, saying Thakur made extraordinarily “inflammatory remarks designed to incite violence between completely different communities.” He added she inspired disruption of legislation and order by advocating using weapons.
“In her speech, Pragya Singh Thakur mentioned, those that do ‘love jihad’, needs to be given an analogous response. Hold your women secure, strengthen their values, and hold weapons in your properties,” Gokhale mentioned in his criticism.
Hindu teams use the time period love jihad to explain relationships between Muslim males and Hindu girls.
In one other criticism, Tehseen Poonawalla alleged Thakur made a “extremely blasphemous and derogatory speech towards the minority group.”
He mentioned Thakur’s speech was an open name to be used of arms resulting in mob violence towards the minority group. “…[the] speech has the potential impact of intolerance, hatred, violence inter alia towards a selected group which pretty and squarely constitutes an offence below…the Indian Penal Code.”
Congress chief Priyank Kharge referred to as it unlucky {that a} Member of Parliament made such feedback. He added they will even file a criticism towards Thakur. “She is a terror accused. I have no idea why Karnataka is encouraging such an environment.”
Thakur is without doubt one of the accused within the September 2008 bomb blast close to a mosque in Maharashtra’s Malegaon that left six folks useless.
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