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Vivek Avasthi
Now that Delhi Elections are over, the BJP has been drubbing at the hands of Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party, the top leadership of the saffron party has admitted that hate speeches by some of its leaders have indeed back fired and led to its loss in ‘Mini India’. But the bigger question is that who will be entrusted with the responsibility to shut its motormouth leaders.
Even after the electoral loss of Delhi, Some leaders are still not minding their language. On last Wednesday, Union minister and Bharatiya Janata Party leader Giriraj Singh on Tuesday described Islamic seminary Darul Uloom Deoband in Saharanpur district in Uttar Pradesh as the ‘gangotri of terrorism’, and blamed the region for nurturing terrorists.
“I have said it earlier that Deoband is the Gangotri of terrorists,” he told the reporters in Saharanpur. ‘All most wanted terrorists of the world came from Deoband, including (Lashkar-e-Taiba founder) Hafiz Saeed or any of the others. These people are not against CAA, they are against India. This is a kind of a Khilafat movement.’
He earlier said that suicide bombers are being trained at Shaheen Bagh in Delhi which he said is part of the conspiracy plotted against the country. ‘Shaheen Bagh is no longer just a movement. Here, suicide bombers are being trained. There is a conspiracy against the country in the country’s capital,’ Giriraj Singh had written on Twitter.
An irked BJP president JP Nadda,today summoned Union Minister Giriraj Singh over his recent controversial remark on Deoband. He is said to have conveyed his and the top leaderships displeasure to Giriraj Singh. But the golden question is that will Giriraj Singh, who is 67-year-old now and has the habit of making controversial statements, will silence his guns!
The controversial statements from another central minister Anurag Thakur in which he said ‘golimaaro’ and Kapil Mishra’s remark on Delhi elections as an India-Pakistan match, all have backfired. These leaders are silent at the moment but when they will start again, no one seems to know.
Even Delhi BJP President, Manoj Tiwari has not been able to control his emotions. After the crushing defeat of his party at the hands of Aam Aadmi Party in Delhi, he was seen on a television news channel, crying and later saying that these were tears of happiness. He has been trolled on Twitter on his poll predictions and this clip is doing rounds on social media sites including Whatsapp.
Allies Warn BJP Ahead of Bihar Polls
LJP chief Chirag Paswan has said hate speech will not be allowed during the poll campaigning in Bihar, while disapproving remarks by several BJP leaders during the recently concluded Delhi Assembly elections.
The Lok Janshakti Party is a key coalition partner in the BJP-led NDA, and the founder of the party Ram Vilas Pawan is a Union minister in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s cabinet.
Chirag Paswan said ‘Hate speech should be avoided. They were not needed in Delhi polls. We should have focused on what we delivered or would deliver rather than over-emphasizing on Shaheen Bagh and other negative issues.’ He added that his party would not support any such effort.
Bihar will face Assembly elections later this year and elections in West Bengal and Assam are scheduled to take place next year. BJP President J.P. Nadda will have a lot of work to do before these elections.
The BJP is facing the toughest challenge from within to contain its motormouth leaders and the big question here is – who will bell these cats?
(The writer is a senior journalist)
