Lucknow:With riot-hit Muzaffarnagar going to polls on April 10, Amit Shah, the close aide of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, raised the communal temperature by asking the Jats of a village in the area to vote for “revenge”.
“In Uttar Pradesh, especially western UP, it is an election for honour. It is an election to take revenge for the insult. It is an election to teach a lesson to those who have committed injustice,” he reportedly said at a meeting of community leaders in Bijnore district on Friday, but the video recording of the same was telecast on Saturday.
The BJP leader said that it was during Mughal rule that swords and arrows were used to take revenge, but, in the present, one can no longer resolve a matter in this way.
The BJP on Saturday came under attack over the remarks, with the Congress demanding Mr Shah’s arrest and that he be banned from campaigning for “stoking communal fire”.
The Congress, BSP and the SP have written to the EC demanding a ban on Mr Shah’s entry in UP and action against him. The Congress demanded “stern action” against Mr Shah and Mr Modi.
