Prophet protests: BJP leader slams own home minister, says ‘rest of India looking like Kashmir’

• Shubham
• 10 June, 2022

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By: Shubham Ghosh

THE row caused by a now suspended leader of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) by making controversial remarks on Prophet Muhammad seems to have created differences within the party.

And it is not about the remarks made by Nupur Sharma, a former spokesperson of the saffron party. Veteran leader Subramanian Swamy, who is not known for mincing words, on Friday (10) expressed his disappointment over the disturbances that were seen across India in connection with the Prophet row and said the Indian home minister Amit Shah was clueless about the snowballing problem.

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He even asked whether Shah should remain in his post if the situation in the country did not improve in the next 48 hours.

Muslim protesters demonstrated in several parts of India over the alleged remarks on the Prophet and there were instances of stone-pelting and issuing threat.

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Taking to Twitter, Harvard-educated Swamy said, “Rest of India today is looking like Kashmir. We had instead wanted Kashmir to look like the rest of India. Has Amit Shah as Home Minister any clue about a solution ? If the situation does not come under control in the next 48 hours, should Shah remain as HM? Modi’s call.”

Rest of India today is looking like Kashmir. We had instead wanted Kashmir to look like the rest of India. Has Amit Shah as Home Minister any clue about a solution ? If the situation does not come under control in the next 48 hours, should Shah remain as HM? Modi’s call.

— Subramanian Swamy (@Swamy39) June 10, 2022

Scenes of stone-pelting are commonly seen in Kashmir, India’s only Muslim-majority province, but the BJP leader was distressed that the same was seen in other parts as well.

Swamy, who joined the BJP in 2013 by merging his Janata Party with it, reportedly had a distance with the top leadership after he criticised prime minister Narendra Modi’s economic and foreign policies. Last October, he removed the party’s name from his Twitter bio after getting dropped from the BJP’s national executive committee.