A group of civil servants on Saturday sought action against Bharatiya Janata Party MP Pragya Thakur for urging Hindus to stock weapons at home to give “befitting reply” to those who try to attack their homes.
Addressing an event organised by the Hindu Jagarana Vedike in Karnataka’s Shivamogga city on December 25, the Bhopal MP had said that Hindus have the right to respond to those who attack them and their dignity.
“Keep weapons in your homes, if nothing else, at least keep knives used to cut vegetables sharp,” she had told the gathering. “If someone infiltrates our house and attacks us, giving them a befitting reply is our right.”
She had also urged Hindus to protect their girls from “love jihad” – a Hindutva conspiracy theory that Muslim men romantically lure Hindu women in order to convert them to Islam.
On Saturday, the former civil servants in a statement issued under the banner of the Constitutional Conduct Group said that the context and the use of the term “love jihad” leaves no doubt that Thakur was targeting Muslims with her remarks.
“It is also possible that she was sending out a warning against Christians and other non-Hindu communities as well,” they added. “Though Pragya Thakur appears to have cleverly chosen her words to avoid criminal charges being made against her, the disguise is only a thin one. She is obviously fomenting hate against non-Hindu communities and advocating violence against them.”
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