Avarakurichi (Tamil Nadu) | Actor turned politician Kamal Haasan added to the ‘Hindu terror’ controversy and asserted that the first terrorist of independent India was a Hindu.
“I’m not saying this because there a lot of Muslims here. I said this in front of Gandhi’s statue. The first terrorist of independent India was a Hindu,” Kamal Haasan said, as he spoke to voters from a campaign van. “His name was Nathuram Godse.”
The leader of Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM) as campaigning in Avarakurichi with S Mohanraj, his party’s candidate for the bypoll on May 19.
Nathuram Godse shot Mahatma Gandhi on January 30, 1948.
“I’ve come to question that killing — think about it that way,” Kamal Haasan said.
“Good Indians want to India to be equal and peaceful and have all three colours of the tricolour”, he added.
“I am a good Indian,” he said.
The BJP has opposed this. Tamilisai Soundararajan, the Tamil Nady state BJP chief said his comments are ‘condemnable’ and accused him of ‘minority appeasement’.
“Actor Kamala Hasan recalling Gandhi’s assassination now and calling it Hindu terrorism is condemnable. Standing amidst minorities in TN by-election campaign he is lighting a dangerous fire to gain votes by minority appeasement. Kamal didn’t opine on recent Srilanka bomb blast why?” she tweeted.
“But dares to take up decades-old event which was well enquired & guilty punished? He threatened to leave India when his film screening was prevented by religious groups! But now he calls himself true Indian! True political acting started now having lost the chances in the screenplay”, she added.
MNM is not contesting the Lok Sabha polls this year.
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