Giriraj sparks a fresh row

During the recent poll campaign, Jharkhand and Bihar police had lodged three FIRs against Singh for saying that those opposed to Narendra Modi had no place in India and they should go to Pakistan.

Deprecating his remarks as “unfortunate”, some political parties demanded that the BJP leader should be “disenfranchised” while others warned that BJP and its leaders were out to “ruin” the country.

Launching a scathing attack on Giriraj and BJP, Congress said the party should stop him from making such remarks.  “Terrorism comes in different forms. Terrorism of thoughts is just as bad as terrorism of guns.

Giriraj should reflect on that. What he says, when he says and how he said it he should reflect on what its impact is. This country will not accept that religion can be equated with terrorist crime,” Union minister Salman Khurshid said.

Another Congress leader Rashid Ali said that terrorists who have been caught till now do not belong to any one particular community and attacked the BJP, saying even Sadhvi Pragya is also included in that category.

“But dividing terrorists into religion is very unfortunate. BJP and its leaders will ruin this country,” Ali said.