Videos of seers, BJP’s Ashwini Upadhyay calling for
killing of Muslims, Hindu rashtra spark anger
At
two separate events in Delhi and Haridwar, the speakers asked Hindus to buy
weapons for genocide against Muslims.
Dec 22, 2021 · 09:25
pmUpdated Dec 22, 2021 · 09:58 pm
(From
L-R) Sudarshan News Editor Suresh Chavhanke, BJP leader Ashwini Upadhyay and
seer Yati Narsinghanand Saraswati were among the speakers at the two events
held between December 17 and 19 in Delhi and Haridwar. | Twitter/Kaushik Raj
and Mohammed Zubair
Multiple videos of Hindutva group members,
journalists and a Bharatiya Janata Party leader calling for violence against
Muslims sparked outrage on social media on Wednesday.
In one of the
videos, Suresh Chavhanke, the
editor-in-chief of Sudarshan News, can be seen administering an oath to a group
of people to “die for and kill” to make India a “Hindu rashtra” or a Hindu
nation.
He made the comments while
addressing an event of Hindutva group Hindu Yuva Vahini in Delhi on December
19.
“We take an oath and make
a resolution that till our last breath, we shall fight, die for and if need be,
kill, to make this country a Hindu rashtra,” Chavhanke said. Those present
around him repeated his statements.
The Sudarshan News editor-in-chief himself
posted a video on Twitter of him administering the oath.
“The lions and lionesses
of Hindu Yuva Vahini taking an oath for Hindu Rashtra,” he said in the tweet.
Social media users pointed
out that Uttar Pradesh minister Rajeshwar Singh was also present at the event.
Notably, the Facebook page
of the Delhi unit of the Hindu Yuva Vahini claims
that the group had been founded by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Adityanath.
State Minister of UP
Govt., Rajeshwar Singh was also present in the gathering that took oath in
Delhi to kill muslims to create a Hindu Rashtra.
(These are two separate genocidal meetings in two different cities, Haridwar
and Delhi. Both are directly and clearly asking to kill.) https://t.co/3f3ciiSkft
— Hussain Haidry
(@hussainhaidry) December
22, 2021
Haridwar
event
At a separate event held in Uttarakhand’s Haridwar city between
December 17 and December 19, several seers also openly called for genocide against Muslims and
asked Hindus to buy weapons.
BJP leader Ashwini Upadhyay, who had been arrested in August in
connection with an event where inflammatory slogans calling for violence
against Muslims were shouted at a rally in Delhi’s Jantar Mantar, was also
present in Haridwar. He presented a “bhagwa samvidhaan” or a saffron
constitution at the event.
Yati Narsinghanand Saraswati,
who has in the past made several extremist comments,
said: “Economic boycott [against Muslims] will not work...No community can
survive without picking up weapons...And swords won’t work, they look good only
on stages. You need to update your weapons...More and more offsprings and
better weapons, only they can protect you.”
Upadhyay even asked Saraswati
to unveil a book, which he described as “bhagwa samvidhaan”. He referred to
Saraswati as his “friend and guru”.
He corroborated Yati
Narsinghanand Saraswati’s comments saying: “Maharaj ji’s fight is not
unconstitutional. I want to sum up whatever he said by linking it to the
Constitution.”
Annapurna, an office
bearer of Hindutva organisation Hindu Mahasabha, declared at the event that she
would take up arms to protect the Hindu religion from Muslims.
“We are ready to kill them
even if we end up in jail,” she added. “Even if we have an army of 100 people
and if we manage to kill 20 lakh of them, we will win.”
Another seer named Dharamdas said that
he would have “followed the footsteps of Nathuram Godse [Mahatma Gandhi’s
assassin] to shoot [former Prime Minister] Manmohan Singh”. He made the
comments while referring to Singh’s statement in Parliament in 2006, saying
that minorities must have the first claim on resources of the country.
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