Threats To Beat & Boycott, Inciting Violence Against Muslims: BJP’s Nitesh Rane, With 20 FIRs, Is Now A Maharashtra Minister (Article 14)

He calls Muslims Pakistani pimps, green pigs and green snakes; threatens to strip, beat them and urges Hindus to boycott them and demolish mosques. The police have filed—on court directions—20 first information reports against him, 19 over the last two years. But they have never questioned or acted against three-time Maharashtra MLA Nitesh Rane, in the process violating Supreme Court orders to act against hate speech. On 15 December 2024, the former Congressman, who once criticised Narendra Modi and mocked the RSS, was sworn in as cabinet minister, conforming to a BJP pattern of reward for anti-Muslim hate speech.

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BJP MLA and Maharashtra cabinet minister of fisheries and ports Nitesh Rane addresses a public meeting in Sindhudurg’s Oros town on 10 December 2024, condemning attacks on Hindus and Buddhists in Bangladesh/ NITISH RANE’S X ACCOUNT

By Kunal Purohit

Mumbai: “Who are these Pakistani bhadwe (pimps) who live here, due to whom we can’t celebrate our Navratri festival?… I will come to your home, strip you and beat/kill you in your own house.” 

10 October 2024, Mumbai 

“If you are going to keep chicken and mutton shops open during Navratri, no Hindu will tolerate this. If you want to insist on keeping them open, then we will throw pork in front of mosques.”

10 October 2024, Mumbai

“I am telling the police men, take a 30-minute break from home, on the pretext of your family or for Devi’s darshan, and go away from here. See how these bhagwa-dhaaris (saffron wearers) clean Pathanwadi (of Muslims).”

10 October 2024, Mumbai

“I need to get calls from here that they (Muslims) have stopped stepping out of homes, that an exodus has started, they have started selling off their homes. And then, it will become a Hindu-only Ahilya Nagar, won’t it?”

1 September 2024, Ahilya Nagar (formerly Ahmednagar)

“If bhadwas from there (Muslim-dominated areas) are here, remember that this is not over: tumko chun chun kar maarenge (I will beat each one of you up). Nobody will come from your mosques to save you.”

30 July 2024, Uran 

“You should not call it Islampur at all; you should slap whoever says Islampur and insist they call it Ishwarpur. If as Hindus we don’t show this rigidity, these jihadis won’t realise that it isn’t going to be Islampur for too long now.”

This story was originally published in article-14.com. Read the full story here.

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