Bengaluru: In an occasion held at Karnataka’s Mandya district, senior Bharatiya Janata Get together (BJP) chief C.T.Ravi has purportedly threatened to “lower off” the heads of those that dared to problem the Hindus.

Addressing a big crowd Wednesday in communally tense area of Maddur, about 100 km from Bengaluru, Ravi’s speech was acquired with applause. 

Ravi was among the many BJP leaders who carried out a procession in Maddur the place communal tensions have been on the simmer since Sunday evening. 

Miscreants had pelted stones on a Ganesha idol immersion when it handed in entrance of the mosque, resulting in retaliation and escalating tensions in Karnataka’s Mandya district. 

Since then, at the least 21 folks have been arrested in reference to Sunday evening’s incident and the commotion that has adopted since then. 

A number of BJP leaders, together with Chief of the Opposition R.Ashoka, state president B.Y.Vijayendra and a number of other others made their option to Maddur Wednesday to participate within the procession. They have been accompanied by crowds, sporting saffron shawls, chanting slogans together with ‘Jai Shri Ram’.

BJP leaders have accused the Siddaramaiah-led Congress authorities of emboldening anti-social parts with its appeasement politics. 

The Shivamogga police have additionally launched an investigation right into a viral video during which some persons are heard elevating ‘Pakistan Zindabad’ slogans throughout an Eid Milad procession. The video is purportedly from 8 September and exhibits a bunch of children elevating what feels like pro-Pakistan slogans close to Bhadhavathi’s Gandhi circle. 

Ravi additionally mocked Congress legislator Sangmesh, who had mentioned that he want to be born a Muslim within the subsequent life. 

Ravi mentioned that there was no idea of afterlife in Islam and that the Congress legislator from Bhadhravathi in Shivamogga ought to convert proper now. 

Islam was born 1,400 years in the past however Hinduism is over tens of 1000’s of years outdated, he mentioned. “We (Hindus) have been born right here. You (Muslims) have been born elsewhere and have come right here,” he mentioned, including that Hindus won’t sit again too lengthy. 

He claimed that the Hindus had not spared Tipu Sultan or his father Hyder Ali, hinting that the identical destiny awaited those that provoked the group. 

There may be rising clamour that the Srirangapatna’s Jumma Masjid (Masjid-E-Ala) was a temple that was forcibly transformed right into a mosque by Tipu Sultan. Final January, the village of Keragodu in the identical district had changed into a fortress after Hindutva teams protested towards the state authorities’s resolution to disclaim permission to hoist a saffron or spiritual flag close to the bus stand.

Final 12 months, there have been communal clashes in Nagamangala through the Ganesha Chaturthi celebrations. 

(Edited by Tony Rai)