"Goons of Hitler use to beat and kill innocent people. Later, police use to file cases against the victims. Modiji is also doing the same. He is following Hitler's tactics to grab the power and his supporters are not able to see in which direction India is going," Kejriwal said in a tweet.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, alleging he is "following" German dictator "Adolf Hitler's tactics to grab power." Kejriwal launched the scathing attack on Modi while re-twitting a video that purportedly showed members of a Muslim family in Gurgaon's Dhamaspur village being beaten up with sticks and rods by a group of men on Thursday.
Police had said a mob pelted stones at a house in Gurgaon and beat up family members, after a quarrel over a game of cricket on Holi. Later six persons were arrested for attempt to murder.
"Goons of Hitler use to beat and kill innocent people. Later, police use to file cases against the victims. Modiji is also doing the same. He is following Hitler's tactics to grab the power and his supporters are not able to see in which direction India is going," Kejriwal said in a tweet.
The Delhi Chief Minister also re-tweeted the video of the incident and said, "Look at this video. In which holy book it is written that one should beat Muslims. Is it in Gita? Or in Ramayan? Or in Hanuman Chalisa? These people are not Hindus but goons in their disguise".
Reacting, Delhi BJP wrote: “Power Hungry @ArvindKejriwal is demeaning Hindus and Hinduism on a regular basis in order to appease one community. It seems he wants to create communal tensions in Delhi. Delhi is ready to give Anti-Hindu Kejriwal a befitting reply! #KejriwalHatesHindu”
Power Hungry @ArvindKejriwal is demeaning Hindus and Hinduism on a regular basis in order to appease one community. It seems he wants to create communal tensions in Delhi. Delhi is ready to give Anti-Hindu Kejriwal a befitting reply!#KejriwalHatesHinduhttps://t.co/SWOrR4zYTI
— BJP Delhi (@BJP4Delhi) March 24, 2019
1. Incident on Holi
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Earlier, on Friday ACP, Gurgaon, Shamsher Singh had said that the incident occurred on Thursday evening at 5.00 pm when some of the victim family members, belonging to a minority community, were playing cricket outside their residence in Bhup Singh Nagar in Bhondsi area.
According to a victim, Shahid, six to seven drunk people asked his my family members not to play cricket on the street.
The attack was captured on cellphone by one of the victims.
2. AAP slams BJP
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The family later alleged it was a planned attack by a group of people "backed" by a Hindutva group.
The police, however, did not confirm the allegation.
AAP senior leader Sanjay Singh also alleged the BJP is trying to turn India into Taliban and urged the opposition parties to be careful of the saffron party's tactics of "polarising people ahead of the Lok Sabha elections."
3. Kejriwal's earlier transgressions
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On Thursday, a lot of Twitter users took umbrage with Arvind Kejriwal after he shared a meme which showed a man with a broom chasing a ‘swastika’.
The crude attempt at humour was in line with the current Opposition’s lazy attempt to compare the current regime to Hitler’s Germany, an almost armchair response which suggests that their entire library consists of one Rabindranath Tagore poem, two George Orwell books and one Wikipedia entry on the Nuremberg trials.
Now, two days after that, a complaint has been filed against Kejriwal by a SC lawyer.
In his complaint to Delhi Police Commissioner Amulya Patnaik, Supreme Court advocate Alakh Alok Shrivastava alleged that Kejriwal with his tweet posted on March 20 hurt the religious sentiments of Hindu community. "Around 10:13 pm on March 20, the accused posted a tweet from his official Twitter handle depicting a broom chasing away a 'Hindu Swastika' symbol. This is an extremely sacred symbol in Hinduism and is worshipped by many Hindus," the complaint read.
The lawyer alleged that the tweet was published online to promote disharmony, enmity, hatred and ill-will among different religious groups.
"I hereby request you to immediately register a first information report (FIR) against Kejriwal under sections 295A, 153A, 153, 504 and 505 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC)," Srivastava said in the complaint.
Must Read: How a Hindu symbol was misused by Hitler
The swastika is a symbol might be a major stigma in the western world, given it was the sigil of Nazi Germany. However, that is going against the grain considering it’s an important Hindu symbol. Signs and sigils have to be seen in the context of the space-time it's used. Even the orientation of the Hindu swastika is different from the one used by Nazis.
The word is ancient, derived from three Sanskrit words roots – su (good), asti (exists) and ka (make) meaning the maker of goodness. It’s commonly used in a host of places including the entrances of homes and temples, to mark new beginnings and over rituals such as weddings and welcoming a new born.
When Reuters showed its ignorance for the swastika
Someone sent this ... pic.twitter.com/IScYDLgwZr
— Arvind Kejriwal (@ArvindKejriwal) March 20, 2019
With ANI inputs
