Guwahati: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has demanded action against a Congress leader who has sparked a controversy with his alleged remarks at a party function in Bengaluru asking all right-wing members to shoot the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi if they have the guts to do so.
A purported video of former MLA Belur Gopalakrihna has gone viral in social media of his controversial remarks made at a party event on February 4 to protest the action of a Hindu Mahasabha leader Puja Shakun Pandey. Pandey was glorifying Nathuram Godse for assassinating Mahatma Gandhi.
On January 31 in Aligarh, Pandey had shot an effigy of Mahatma Gandhi with a toy gun on the death anniversary of Gandhiji and had observed it as Shaurya Divas.
In the purported video, Gopalakrishna was heard saying, "My dear friends, these people who speak in favour of Godse should not stay in the country. If they move to murder the democracy of this country. If the extreme right wingers have the guts shoot Modi, don't kill anybody else. I am very happy."
The BJP members of Karnataka posted the video in its Twitter and demanded that the police should take action against him.
Gopalakrishna in an official party function calls for assassination of democratically elected Prime Minister Sri@narendramodi ji. Instigating for the assassination of PM of a country is a national threat and BJP urge Home Ministry of India, CPB to impose legal action immediately.
The party also asked Congress President Rahul Gandhi to take action against him.
The party tweeted to Rahul Gandhi as, "Well @Rahul Gandhi we remember you saying you don't endorse hate politics but now that your own party leader has openly called for the assassination of a democratically elected PM of this nation would act on him. If you don't act it clearly means you endorse his words."
Further when Gopalakrishna asked about his remarks he defended and said, "I never said I will kill Modi. These people insulted the father of the nation, shot at his effigy and said that if Gandhi was alive today they would have shot him dead."
The Congress leader was previously in the BJP and joined Congress after he was denied a ticket in the assembly election to contest from Sagar constituency last year. Before that the leader was in the JD(S).
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