Shaheen Bagh has become the breeding ground for suicide bombers: Giriraj Singh
New Delhi/IBNS: On the last day of campaigning for the Delhi assembly polls, Union Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader, Giriraj Singh, on Thursday stirred a row by saying Delhi's Shaheen Bagh, where Muslim women and men are protesting uninterrupted against the contentious Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), has become the breeding ground for suicide bombers.
Singh tweeted a video where several Muslim women are seen raising slogans. The Minister said in the tweet, "This Shaheen Bagh is not just a protest but the breeding ground of suicide bombers. Conspiracy against the country is being made in the national capital."
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— Shandilya Giriraj Singh (@girirajsinghbjp) February 6, 2020
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Singh's comment is the latest instance where the BJP triggered row by attacking the anti-CAA protestors at Shaheen Bagh.
Earlier, Union Home Minister and BJP leader, Amit Shah, had urged people to "press the button on voting machines so hard that people in Shaheen Bagh get shock".
Union Minister Anurag Thakur was in the midst of controversy after he had led the crowd to chant "shoot the traitors" in an attack on Shaheen Bagh. Pulling up the BJP leader, the Election Commission (EC) had banned Thakur from campaigning for 72 hours.
BJP Lok Sabha MP from West Delhi constituency, Parvesh Verma, was banned by the EC for 96 hours for saying the protestors at Delhi's Shaheen Bagh will enter into homes and rape women.
He had said, "These people had raped Kashmiri Pandits in Jammu and Kashmir... Now they have come to Delhi. They will enter the houses of Delhi and rape daughters, sisters. People of Delhi must keep all these things in mind because Narendra Modi and Amit Shah will not be there to save them at that time."
The Delhi assembly elections are crucial for the BJP as the saffron party lost its hold in five states in last one year.
The national capital will go to polls on Feb 8 while the votes will be counted on 11th of the same month.
(Image Credit: Giriraj Singh Twitter)
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