Hindu terror remark: Kamal Haasan mentally unstable, says BJP, demands apology
Senior BJP leader Vinay Katiyar calls Kamal Haasan "unstable".
Kamal Haasan
New Delhi,UPDATED: Nov 2, 2017 16:00 IST
In Short
- An angry BJP leader has hit-back over Tamil megastar Kamal Haasan's remark.
- Haasan write called out Hindu extremists in a Tamil weekly.
- Haasan to make a big announcement on November 7, when he turns 63.
An angry BJP leader hit-back at Tamil megastar Kamal Haasan, calling him "mentally unstable" for his remarks that the right-wing in India cannot deny there are Hindu terrorists.
In his column in a popular Tamil weekly, Haasan wrote, "Right-wing cannot challenge anyone saying there are Hindu terrorists, because their terror has spread into their camps as well. Such terror activities are not going to help them in way."
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WHAT WE KNOW SO FAR IN 10 POINTS
- Senior BJP leader Vinay Katiyar today said that Haasan should apologise for the statement. "His mental state is unstable. He should be getting treated in a hospital. Politics of such defamatory nature is not okay. He doesn't have any proof," he said.
- Katiyar also added that the Tamil Nadu BJP will see if a defamation case can be made against the 62-year-old actor who has been testing the waters for a while, ahead of his plans to enter politics.
- "In the past, Hindu right-wing groups would not indulge in violence. They would hold a dialogue with opposing parties on their arguments. But these old tactics were defeated and now what they do is use muscle power. They started indulging in violence," the actor wrote.
- Hindus are losing faith in 'Satyameva jayate' and instead subscribing to might is right," Haasan said. "Truth alone triumphs has now become strength alone triumphs. This has made people inhuman," he added.
- BJP spokesperson GVL Narasimha Rao also slammed the remarks, and said the actor is eyeing Muslim votebank.
- "His comments look like a strategy to join ranks with P Chidambaram and Sushil Kumar Shinde (both former Congress Union ministers) who, under the instructions of Sonia and Rahul Gandhi, attempted to defame the Hindi religion and gave this so-called nomenclature of Hindu terror with clearly an eye on Muslim vote banks," Rao said.
- Not to be left behind, another firebrand BJP leader, Subramanian Swamy, who, like Haasan, hails from Tamil Nadu, said he is not "a star of any standing right now".
- "All the while I was fighting corruption, he was sitting in air conditioned rooms buttering (late Tamil Nadu Chief Minister) J Jayalalithaa. He has been utilised by the Left. This politics won't work anywhere, leave aside Tamil Nadu," Swamy said.
- Haasan's provocative statements come at a time when his fans and the leaders in Tamil Nadu are waiting for a "grand announcement" the actor is expected to make on November 7, when he turns 63.
- In the last couple of months, Haasan's political overtures included a lunch with Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. The Left has also been wooing the superstar, who once said saffron is "definitely not (his) colour".
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