JNU row: Raja should ask communists to kill daughter, says BJP leader

BJP national secretary H Raja was at the centre of a controversy as he remarked that CPI leader D Raja should ask communists to shoot and kill his daughter for taking part in “anti-national protests” in JNU.

BJP national secretary H Raja was at the centre of a controversy as he remarked that CPI leader D Raja should ask communists to shoot and kill his daughter for taking part in “anti-national protests” in JNU.

CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury with CPI leaders S Sudhakar Reddy and D Raja (Left) during a meeting of the Left parties in New Delhi. A BJP leader stoked controversy by saying D Raja should ask communists to kill his daughter for participating in JNU protests. (PTI Photo)

“D Raja should demand that communists should shoot and kill his daughter for taking part in the JNU protest. To prove my love for this country, I would have done the same if my child was taking part in such anti-national protests,” he told reporters in Coimbatore on Saturday.

When contacted, D Raja Sunday declined to comment on the BJP leader’s remarks. The BJP office bearer said if the communists love this country, how did they take part in an “anti-national” event. He went on to say that “all those who attended the events in JNU are anti-nationals, whether it is Rahul (Gandhi) or (D) Raja or (Sitaram) Yechury .”

“I will expose all anti-nationals. What is happening now in the country is a major ideological fight, to differentiate who is the nationalist and anti-nationalist,” he said, adding, “If you want to live in this country, you have to sing Vande Mataram, or leave the country”.