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LS polls: Congress candidate Vikramaditya challenges Kangana for open debate

Shimla: Himachal Pradesh minister and Congress candidate from Mandi Lok Sabha seat on Wednesday challenged BJP nominee Kangana Ranaut for an open debate over their vision for the constituency.

While addressing a press conference here, Singh said, “Ours is a healthy democracy…she should take part in a debate and tell the people about her vision. I will also tell the people about the work which I have done for Mandi as well as my vision for the constituency.”

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He also hit out at the actor over her speeches in poll meetings and said that whenever she goes she has only one agenda and that is to keep on repeating Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s name.

“Though we have immense respect for PM Modi, she should at least tell the people about her vision instead of completely relying on the PM,” the public works minister added.

“She says that she is a big actress…she should come forward and tell the people of Mandi about the work that she will be doing for them, and I believe that the youth, women, and people of Mandi will appreciate it,” Singh said.

“I believe that this is the way to take things forward so that the people of Mandi can decide whom they want to be their leader from Mandi,” he said.

Singh claimed that Kangana has no knowledge about history and geography of the state.

“She just reads out the script that is handed over to her by her scriptwriters and has no reply when someone asks her a question,” he said.

Meanwhile, Kangana, who was addressing a gathering in Nankhari area in Mandi constituency, hit out at Singh and said that if former chief minister Virbhadra Singh was alive today, he would have scolded Vikramaditya Singh for making “disrespectful statements” against her and would have asked him to apologise to her.

She said that he (Virbhadra Singh) would have been deeply hurt by the fact that the daughter of Himachal Pradesh was told that she is “impure”.

“We can forgive him (Vikramaditya Singh) for saying that but we cannot give him the leadership,” she added.

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BJP video calling Muslims ‘invaders’, seeking vote for Modi taken down

Hyderabad: An Islamophobic video featuring Prime Minister Narendra Modi dogwhistlling against Muslims that was posted by the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) official Instagram handle has been taken down after massive outrage by several users. It is not sure whether the BJP deleted it, or whether it was removed after users reported against it.

The animated video, which had a voice over, featured Modi and reiterated pretty much the same falsehoods the Prime Minister had stated in his earlier public speeches in Rajasthan in the run up to the ongoing Lok Sabha elections which is being held in different phases. In the video, Muslims were called “infiltrators” and it repeated the same thing – that the Congress will “redistribute wealth” if it comes to power.

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Posted on Tuesday, April 30, the BJP video said that the Congress manifesto was the same as the Muslim League (of Pakistan founder Mohammed Ali Jinnah). More importantly, the video, which called for Modi’s re-election, claimed that the Congress would “snatch the wealth of non-Muslims and give it to Muslims”, a statement hat Modi himself made last month, which also drew widespread criticism.

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Modi in his speech in Banswara (Rajasthan) last month pretty much called Muslims “infiltrators” and the video posted by the BJP also directly targetted the community. It also showed Congress MP Rahul Gandhi holding his party’s, which in the animation changed to a green-coloured flag with the crescent and star – a symbol considered as an Islamic flag. 

The video by BJP shocked many people especially on Instagram where it garnered over one lakh likes within a day. Outraged by such a post in the run up to the General Elections, many censured Modi and the BJP, while others simply stated that this was surprising given that Modi himself made similar statements earlier.

In the video, the BJP, in typical right-wing fashion, also invoked the sage-old stereotypical narrative that ancient India was robbed of its glory by Muslim invaders. The animation included visuals of temples and a queen-like woman which was soon followed by visuals of Muslim men in horses. The voice-over expectedly claimed that India’s prosperity was lost as “invaders, terrorists, robbers and thieves used to come again and again, used to loot all our treasures”.

It is evident that the BJP is bent on making it seem like the Congress is a Muslim-centric party, and is trying to antagonize voters against it. The video ends with the sentence, “Narendra Modi knows of this evil plan. Only he has the strength to stop it. If you really care about the Bharatiya civilisation, you need to go out and vote for Modi. ApkiBaar400 is the absolute need of the hour.”

It is to be seen if the Election Commission is petitioned again over this, just like opposition leaders and the public flagged Modi’s earlier statements for hate-speech.

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