By Eshwar
<Trigger warning: Hate speech.>
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“If you (Muslims) care about your community, you will not utter a word against Ramgiri Maharaj,” said Nitesh Rane, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and MLA from Kankavali at an event in Maharashtra’s Shrirampur on Sunday, 1 September.
Son of former chief minister and former minister in PM Narendra Modi’s cabinet Narayan Rane, Nitesh in the same statement also threatened to enter mosques and thrash Muslims if need be, in his signature statement “Chun chun ke maarenge” which he has often used in the past.
Ironically, Nitesh Rane’s lament came ‘in defence of’ Ramgiri Maharaj, who himself was booked two weeks ago for controversial statements on Prophet Mohammed. Since that controversy erupted on 18 August, Rane has been vocally supporting Ramgiri Maharaj’s statements as ‘facts’ on TV debates and press briefings.0
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