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’Don’t you remember Gujarat?’: Hate speech reigns at BJP’s pro-CAA events


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Kozhikode, Jan 17, 2020:  Kerala police on Tuesday filed a case against over a 100 BJP workers in the state after communal slogans referencing the 2002 Gujarat riots were raised at its rally in Kozhikode on Monday.

 

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Vitriolic and abusive slogans were raised at a pro-CAA march organised by the BJP called ‘Save the country’, reports said.

This is not the first time the Gujarat riots have been mentioned during the defence of the Modi government’s controversial Citizenship Amendment Act.

BJP’s Karnataka minister CT Ravi had last month had referred to Godhra while responded to Congress MLA UT Khader’s criticism of CAA, saying: “The majority community is being patient. This does not mean that you can provoke people.”

In the communal riots of 2002 in Gujarat, over a thousand people, mostly Muslims, were killed.

This is not even the first time hate speech has been used by BJP members at pro-CAA events.

Just this Sunday, BJP’s Bengal president Dilip Ghosh threatened to shoot and kill those anti-CAA protestors who damaged public property. “Our governments in Uttar Pradesh, Assam and Karnataka shot these people like dogs,” Ghosh said.

The same day in UP, BJP leader Raghuraj Singh threatened to bury alive people who raised slogans against PM Narendra Modi and CM Yogi Adityanath. Singh was addressing a pro-CAA rally in Aligarh.

In December, Haryana BJP MLA Leela Ram Gurjar said at an event for CAA that those opposing the Act and NRC could be “wiped out” in an hour.

At the rally in Kozhikode on Monday, BJP workers said, “If you stand against national security, all your mosques will vanish from Indian soil. Do you know who is saying this? This is Hedgewar’s army. This is RSS’ army,” Malayala Manorama quoted.

In a video shared online, the party workers can also be heard saying, “Don’t you remember Gujarat? Remember that before you take us on.”



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