Chief Election Officer of Delhi has sought a report from the returning officer of Delhi’s Rithala constituency over Union Minister of state for Finance and Corporate Affairs Anurag Thakur’s inflammatory speech at an election rally in the capital.
Thakur egged on participants of an election rally to raise an incendiary slogan that ‘traitors should be shot’, after he lashed out at anti-Citizenship Amendment Act protesters.
At the rally, Thakur, the minister of state for finance, shouted ‘desh ke gaddaron ko’ to which the crowd responded ‘goli maaro sa*** ko’ (shoot down the traitors).
Addressing the meeting in support of BJP candidate from Rithala, Manish Chaudhary, Singh raised the pitch of nationalism as he linked opposition parties with anti-CAA protests in Shaheen Bagh and with alleged anti-India slogans, and then asked the crowd to raise the controversial slogan.
Thakur, if found guilty, will become the second BJP leader to be pulled up by the Election Commission during the course of campaigns for the Delhi assembly elections.
