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Last Updated: May 02, 2024, 12:29 IST
Speaking to Network18, Amit Shah said the Neha Hiremath murder case was clearly Love Jihad. (Image: News18)
In an exclusive interview with Network18 Group Editor-in-Chief Rahul Joshi, Amit Shah lashed out at the Congress for calling it a “private matter.”
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday said that the Neha Hiremath murder in Karnataka was indeed “a case of Love Jihad.” In an exclusive interview with Network18 Group Editor-in-Chief Rahul Joshi, Shah lashed out at the Congress for calling it a “private matter.”
“They said that (private matter) for their minority vote bank. Tell me one thing. Should any girl get security on the college campus or not? This is how a murder happens and by calling it a personal matter, you are trying to cover up a societal evil. And just for vote bank politics,” Shah said.
He also brought in the Bengaluru café blast, attacking the Congress for calling it a cylinder blast. “They even mistake bomb blasts for gas cylinder blasts. When NIA investigates, it uncovers the truth. There were no bomb blasts in Bengaluru for 10 years. Their government came, the SDPI supported it, and now bomb blasts have started happening. How low will they go because of their vote bank politics? The security of the country, the security of Bengaluru, the security of Karnataka, all this has been neglected by the Congress party,” the Home Minister said.
On Tuesday, BJP leader and former Karnataka chief minister Jagadish Shettar had also called the Neha murder a case of Love Jihad. “The Congress party’s policy is the appeasement of minorities. It is this support that the Congress gives that has given an accused like Fayaz the guts to brutally attack and murder young Neha Hiremath in broad daylight. This was nothing but Love Jihad. He brainwashed her, married her, and converted her into Islam, isn’t it a case of Love Jihad,” Shettar questioned.
He added, “This is 100 percent so. On many occasions, the Congress has supported Fayaz, and this has caused law and order issues. Awareness is being generated among people on this, and there is an undercurrent now in this region. So BJP is not making it an issue, but it is the people who are debating it.”
Neha, 21, was stabbed to death allegedly by her former classmate, Fayaz Khodunaik on April 18 on the campus of KLE Technological University in Hubballi Dharwad.
Watch the full interview on CNN-News18 at 9pm on Thursday.
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