CPI's D Raja should ask communists to shoot his daughter: BJP leader

Bharatiya Janata Party national secretary H Raja was at the centre of a controversy with remarks that Communist Party of India leader D Raja should ask communists to shoot and kill his daughter for taking part in “anti-national protests” at Jawaharlal Nehru University.

“D Raja should demand that communists should shoot and kill his daughter for taking part in the JNU protest. To prove my love for this country, I would have done the same if my child was taking part in such anti-national protests,” he said in Coimbatore on Saturday.

When contacted, D Raja on Sunday declined to comment on the BJP leader’s remarks.

The BJP office bearer said if Communists love this country, how did they take part in an “anti-national” event.

He went on to say that “all those who attended the events in JNU are anti-nationals, whether it is Rahul Gandhi or D Raja or Sitaram Yechury.”

“I will expose all anti-nationals. What is happening now in the country is a major ideological fight, to differentiate who is the nationalist and anti-nationalist,” he said, adding, “If you want to live in this country, you have to sing Vande Mataram, or leave the country”.

He claimed that D Raja’s daughter and Umar Khalid, who has been accused of organising the Afzal Guru event in JNU are good friends.

H Raja said Congress, Communists, atheists and jihadists were destroying the country and its nationalism.

H Raja had earlier been the news when he was booked by Tamil Nadu police in 2014 for his provocative speech against Dravidian leader Periyar besides targeting Muslim and Christian communities.

He had also drawn flak last year for stating that the ‘safe return’ of Vaiko to his home cannot be ensured after the Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam leader attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi.