“All the Hindus stay on this side and send the others to Pakistan".
The BJP has got their own Gandhi!
“They have scary names - Karimullah, Nazarullah - its scary to see them at night When my cousin who is seven-eight years old, saw
Samajwadi Party’s candidate’s photo, she said Bhaiya (big brother), I didn’t know that Osama Bin Laden is fighting from your constituency".
"This is not a hand, it is the power of the lotus. It will cut the head of… Jai Shri Ram".
"If anyone raises a finger towards Hindus or if someone thinks that Hindus are weak and leaderless, if someone thinks that these leaders lick our boots for votes, if anyone raises a finger towards Hindus, then I swear on Gita that I will cut that hand".
Varun Gandhi, BJP's candidate from Pilibhit, UP.
Whether Karimullah and Nazarullah are scary names or not, by his cheap and lowly remarks, one name Mr. Gandhi has insulted is Gandhi, well, Nehru-Gandhi.
And probably Varun Gandhi wanted to prove his party right on at least one issue. The BJP has always accused Nehru-Gandhi family of treating India as their own property.
He, a member of Nehru-Gandhi family, thinks India is his own property and hence tells 'others' to go to Pakistan!
I was a bit amused by his party's reaction: BJP leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi snubbed Varun, saying his speech is "a manifestation of his family's past Congress culture" and that his outburst "did not reflect BJP's traditional culture".
Well, for the BJP there is nothing new in what Varun Gandhi has said. Earlier BJP used Uma Bhartis and Vinay Katyars to do these talks; Varun Gandhi's speech is just a manifestation of that culture.
So Mr. Naqvi is fooling no one except himself.
The BJP’s Gandhi!
Posted in A few stray thoughts.
– March 17, 2009
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