Uttara Kannada MP and controversial BJP leader Anantkumar Hegde said on Saturday that “the Hindu community won’t rest till it reclaims more mosques” on the lines of Babri Masjid, citing structures in Bhatkal, Sirsi, and Srirangapatna in Karnataka.
He was speaking at a private meeting at Kumta in Uttara Kannada district in the context of the January 22 consecration at Ram Mandir in Ayodhya. The four-minute video of his speech has gone viral. “I have no issues even if some call this a threat, but this is a decision of the Hindu community,” he claimed.
Mr. Hegde also said that the Congress was not the opposition to BJP, but it was Chief Minister Siddaramaiah. “In a democracy parties come and go, that is natural. But our opposition is to the non-Hindu mindset like that of Siddaramaiah,” he said, addressing the Chief Minister in the singular and mimicking him.
