What’s wrong in saying hit back when you’re hit? asks Eshwarappa

Team Udayavani, Aug 9, 2021, 1:31 PM IST

Shivamogga: Rural Development Minister KS Eshwarappa on Monday defended his statement that if BJP workers are attacked then they will not be silent.

“I am clearly telling it to the workers even now. There was a time when the BJP did not have any power. I had already told you about Kerala. Deendayal Upadhyay, president of the Bharatiya Jan Sangh, was murdered and thrown away. Then we had no power. No matter how many of us got beaten and murdered, we had no power even to know why it was happening. Youths were killed in Kerala if RSS started a branch anywhere in the State. There was no one to listen to us. But that is not the case now,” Eshwarappa said.

“We are not going to touch anyone first. Elders have told us to remain calm no matter what the situation and once we have enough power they said ‘face with the same stick.’ I said what was told to us by the elders. Nothing wrong in saying hit back when you’re hit,” he added.

“When Siddaramaiah was the chief minister he said that the communalists would be crushed. They killed the young men who went to stop the theft and murder of cows. The government spoke on behalf of the killers. Goumata’s curse was responsible for the change in CM and the government,” the minister said.