Who are they to decide I'm not a Hindu like them, asks Shashi Tharoor

Shashi Tharoor

Days after BJP youth wing members defaced the walls of his office, Congress leader Shashi Tharoor wondered whether "Talibanisation of Hinduism" has started. Tharoor had recently courted a huge controversy with remarks that the BJP, if voted to power again, will pave the way for creation of a "Hindu Pakistan".

"They are asking me to go to Pakistan. Who has given them the right to decide that I am not a Hindu like them and so I cannot live in India? The BJP's talk of 'Hindu Rashtra' is really dangerous. Has Talibanisation started in Hinduism?" the Congress MP from Thiruvananthapuram told workers of Kerala's UDF at a protest march against alleged neglect of the state by the Centre.

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