The Congress on Sunday strongly criticized the Bharatiya Janata Party over a video purportedly showing Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma firing at people from a religious minority group. MP KC Venugopal said there would be “consequences” for such videos and no leniency should be shown by the courts in the matter.
In a post, KC Venugopal described the video as “poison” spread by the top BJP leadership. He expressed no hope of Prime Minister Narendra Modi condemning the video and urged the judiciary to take action.
Venugopal wrote, “An official handle of the BJP has posted a video showing the targeted, ‘frontal killing’ of minorities. This is simply a call for genocide – a dream that this fascist regime has nurtured for decades.”
He wrote, “This is not an ordinary video that can be ignored as troll content. This is poison spread from the top level, and there will be consequences for it. There is no hope that Narendra Modi will condemn it or take action against it, but the judiciary must act, and there should be no leniency in this matter.”
The purported video titled ‘Point Blank Shot’ has now been removed from the handle of Assam BJP.
Congress Rajya Sabha MP Imran Pratapgarhi termed it a “shot to the chest of the Constitution”.
Pratapgarhi wrote on his ex, “Dear Prime Minister, your favorite Chief Minister is firing bullets directly at the chests of Muslims in his election advertisements, but in reality he is firing bullets at the chest of the Constitution. A similar bullet was fired by Godse at the chest of Mahatma Gandhi. Even though this video has been deleted now, Narendra Modi ji, I have a question to you: Are you not watching all this yourself?”
The Chief Minister of Assam has come under criticism for his frequent attacks on illegal immigration and his use of the term “Miya Muslim”. The term is also used to address Bengali-speaking Muslims in the state.
However, Chief Minister Sarma defended his statement, saying that he had not coined the term “Miya Muslim” and that the term was prevalent within the community that had migrated from Bangladesh, which they used to address themselves.
