Would Netaji have approved of calls for Muslim genocide at Haridwar Dharam Sansad, asks Mahua Moitra
India Today
"This is the same Netaji who said that the government of India should have an absolutely neutral and impartial attitude towards all religions," TMC MP Mahua Moitra said in Lok Sabha.
Would Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose have approved of the statements made in the Dharam Sansad, TMC MP Mahua Moitra asked in her speech in Lok Sabha on Thursday.
Speaking on the Motion of Thanks to the President, the Trinamool Congress leader termed the mention of freedom fighters in the President's address as "lip service".
"The President's address refers to Netaji on multiple occasions. I will remind this Republic that this is the same Netaji who said that the government of India should have an absolutely neutral and impartial attitude towards all religions.
"Would Netaji have approved of a Haridwar Dharam Sansad that issues blood-curdling calls for Muslim genocide," she asked.
Quoting a speech Subhas Chandra Bose made in Comilla (now Bangladesh) in 1938, Moitra said, "Communalism has raised its ugly head in an all-out nakedness".
She went on to add that the insignia of Netaji's Indian National Army (INA) was Tipu Sultan's springing tiger.
The same Tipu Sultan that this government has erased from textbooks, said the Trinamool Congress MP.
