‘Paanch Humne Maare Hain’: ‘Send Bilkis Rapist Felicitation Squad’, Mahua Moitra Hits Out At BJP

Bhubaneswar: A day after a former BJP Rajasthan MLA was caught on camera ‘boasting’ of killing five men over cow smuggling, Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra on Sunday said the party should send the squad that ‘felicitated’ the 11 convicts of Bilkis Bano rape case from Gujarat to Rajasthan — to garland ‘this new hero’.

Calling for an agitation in protest against the lynching of Chiranjilal Saini in Alwar allegedly by members of the Mev Muslim community on suspicion of tractor theft, the former MLA Gyan Dev Ahuja was seen defending his stance that anyone involved in cow smuggling and slaughter won’t be spared in the purported video. “We have so far lynched five people, be it in Lawandi or Behror. This has happened for the first time in this area that they have lynched someone. I have given free hand to workers to kill. We will get them acquitted and secure bail,” Ahuja said in the viral video.

Linking it to the reported felicitation of 11 convicts of the Bilkis Bano rape case, who were allowed to walk free by the Gujarat government according to its remission policy, by the local VHP office, the TMC MP said that the saffron party’s to-do list on Sunday must include sending this squad to Rajasthan to ‘garland’ Ahuja, who she described as ‘moustachioed BJP monster’.

The on-camera admission has drawn severe political criticism with Congress stating that this was proof of the BJP’s religious terror and bigotry.