INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Just days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's sharp reprimand for lawmakers making controversial statements, a BJP leader in Uttar Pradesh
known to be a repeat offender is still at it
This time, BJP lawmaker Surendra Singh has called Mamata Banerjee West Bengal's "Surpanakha", the evil sister of demon king "Ravana" in
Ramayana, and claimed that Bengal could turn into Jammu and Kashmir from where Hindus had to migrate.The lawmaker went on
"People are getting killed on streets and she, the chief minister is not doing anything about it Hindus are unsafe in Bengal," the
legislator said in Ballia 400 km from Uttar Pradesh capital Lucknow.If something is not done, the Bairia legislator said, "Bengal will
The building will be in the name of Ghanshyam Singh, but a Muslim would be staying there".This wasn't the first time that the lawmaker has
made controversial remarks.In the past, Surendra Singh has predicted that India would become a Hindu state by 2024, insisted that anyone who
had reservations about Vande Mataram was a Pakistani and this month, even attempted to defend BJP lawmaker Kuldeep Singh Sengar accused of
rape."I am speaking from psychological point of view; no one can rape a mother of three children
It is not possible, this is a conspiracy against him (Kuldeep Singh Sengar)," Surendra Singh said, according to a video clip put out by
ANI.It was such comments that PM Modi had probably hoped to end this weekend when he told lawmakers not to give fodder to the media."We make
So this half-baked stuff is picked up," PM Modi had said.In April last year too, PM Modi had sought to deliver a similar message when he
asked party leaders to "practice the art of silence"
Taking a dig at the controversial statements, he had said, "The microphone is not a machine that forces people to speak".
