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Hate speech: Amit Shah to reply to EC today

| | Apr 12, 2014, at 04:01 pm
New Delhi, Apr 12 (IBNS) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)'s Uttar Pradesh in-charge Amit Shah will on Saturday reply to the Election Commission (EC)'s notice regarding his alleged hate speech at a poll rally.

The EC on Monday issued a notice to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's close aide for his 'revenge' remark.

While the EC initiated an inquiry over Shah's 'revenge' remark, a First Information Report (FIR) was lodged against him for the alleged hate speech.

Reports said the FIR was lodged in Bijnor in Uttar Pradesh.

Triggering a controversy, Shah had urged people to take their revenge by voting for his party in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.

Addressing a rally at a riot-hit Jat village near Muzaffarnagar, Shah said, "If you want to take revenge, vote for the BJP."

"In today's time you can't take revenge with swords and arrows like it was done in the Mughal era. But today the people are constantly being denied justice ... they are not getting their rights. So, you press the right button (on the Electronic Voting Machine) and show people their right place," he said.
 

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