Union Minister Kailash Choudhary has stoked the controversy with his remarks at a farmers’ convention organized by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Hyderabad. At the convention, Kailash Choudhary claimed that a government with nationalistic thinking should come to power in the state and “go to hell with those” who do not sing ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’.
MoS (Agriculture) Kailash Choudhary said: “Bharat me rehna hai, toh ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’ bolna hoga [If you want to live in India, you have to chant ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’]. If you live in India, would you say ‘Pakistan Zindabad?'” The Union Minister added that only those who sing ‘Vande Mataram’ and ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’ have a place in the country.
“Therefore I would like to say, if there is anyone who does not say ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’ and has no faith in Hindustan and Bharat and continues to believe in ‘Pakistan Zindabad’, then he should go to Pakistan. is not needed here,” he said.
It is “necessary” for the country to have a nationalist ideology in the region, he said, adding that the country must be strengthened with collective efforts. The farmers’ convention was organized by the BJP on the occasion of the Union Cabinet recently approving the mandate of the Krishna Water Disputes Tribunal that will regulate the division of river water between Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.
Kailash Choudhary also spoke about the name of INDIA alliance and accused Congress of stealing names. Kailash Choudhary claimed, “They have given the name INDIA. But from today on they no longer do this job of stealing names. If they first did the job of stealing the name, the Congress people first stole the name of Mahatma Gandhi ji. Today it’s Rahul Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi. By stealing Gandhi, they want to become like Gandhi. In the same way, they also want to adopt the name of India.”
“First they stole the name of Congress, then the name of Gandhi and today INDIA,” he said.
(With input from the agency)
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Updated: Oct 14, 2023 11:03 PM IST