I’m not anti-Muslim: Ananthkumar Hegde

Team Udayavani, May 2, 2018, 11:30 AM IST

Karwar: Union Minister of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Ananthkumar Hegde who had hoarded the spotlight for his commonly tinged remarks, astounded everybody as he openly pronounced out of the blue that he was not anti-Muslim. 

At a Bharatiya Janatha Party (BJP) occasion held at Karwar taluk in Uttara Kannada, he stated, “Hindus don’t acknowledge the way of life where survival is reliant on destroying another community. Our culture is to live together with everyone.”

Afterward, Hegde prepared his weapons at Congress. He asserted that Congress had offended the Hindu Dharma in the previous 70 years. “Just 4 to 5 percent of populace in India was Muslim. Presently it has achieved 15 to 20 percent. Any country which achieves a Muslim populace of 30 percent, is totally changed over into Islamic country. History is observer to this”, he asserted. 

Charging that Congress was a party that supports terrorists, he said,  “Congress has made peace with terrorists and it is diminishing patriots. We confront viciousness for living in our own particular country. Congress is smothering the people who work for the reason for religion. We never excuse such affront dispensed to us.”