In violation of Telangana High Court orders, the suspended BJP leader continues to make communal remarks.
Team Clarion
NEW DELHI — Hindutva protagonist, suspended BJP leader and lawmaker T. Raja Singh, has yet again delivered a hate speech this time particularly targeting Muslim women.
Singh, MLA from Hyderabad’s Goshamahal constituency, is notorious for his hate speeches.
Addressing a gathering in Telangana’s Adilabad district at the weekend, the lawmaker courted controversy again when he urged Hindu women against befriending Muslim women, reports reaching here said.
The hate speech is clearly in violation of the Telangana High Court orders which granted him conditional bail in the case against him for making derogatory remarks against Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). The court had warned him against making provocative speeches against any religion and also told him to desist from derogatory and offensive social media posts.
In his Adilabad speech, Singh said: “Whoever has a tilak on his forehead is my brother and a Hindu. I will befriend only people who sport a tilak. And our women please do not become friends with burqa-wearing women. There was a time when we were under threat from Aftab, but now there is a threat from Ayesha as well. These are the Ayeshas who are introducing (our) women to Aftabs,” he said in a clear reference to The Kerala Story, a recent Hindi movie which seeks to promote a fake narrative of ‘love jihad’, wherein Muslim men ‘trap’ Hindu women and convert them to Islam.
In violation of court orders, the bigoted MLA has been continuously making communal speeches. Between January and February this year, Singh attended several rallies in Maharashtra organised by extremist organisations, where he made open calls for a boycott of and violence against Muslims.
Earlier in March, during the Ram Navami procession in Hyderabad, he targeted the Muslim community, giving a call to make India a unified Hindu state (Akhand Hindu rashtra).