Killing in Name of Lord Ram is Insulting Hindu Dharma: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor

Pune, September 22, 2019:

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor said that killing people in the name of Lord Ram was an insult to the Hindu religion.

Citing the rising mob lynching deaths after the Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came into power in 2014, Tharoor questioned the current state of India.

Speaking at a session titled 'Truly Yours', the Why I Am A Hindu-author said, “What have we seen in last 6 years? It started with the killing of Mohsin Shaikh in Pune. Then Mohd Akhlaq was killed saying he is carrying beef. But it was reported later that it was not beef. Even if it was beef, who gave anyone the right to kill a person?”

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He added, “Is this our Bharat? Is this what Hindu Dharam says? I am a Hindu but not of this kind. Also, while killing people, they are asked to say 'Jai Sri Ram'. It is an insult to Hindu Dharma. It is an insult to Lord Ram that people are being killed using his name."

Slamming the Modi government, Tharoor went on to question if ‘one election result’ gave so much power to people that they do anything and kill anyone.

Earlier on Saturday, while speaking at the Pune International Literary Festival, Tharoor said that India is now a country with just ‘black or white’ as choices and no space in between for tolerance. He blamed this ‘polarisation’ of politics on the actions and choices of the BJP.

The Congress MP further said, “I can worship Ram, I read Hanuman Chalisa, therefore I am a Hindu...but suddenly if someone says I do nothing of these things and I am still a Hindu, then they both are right, and this the BJP and Sangh Parivar have not understood.”

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