New Delhi:
A video that showed Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma appearing to shoot at framed photographs of Muslims, has drawn massive criticism from the Opposition, which termed it a “call to genocide”.
The video – posted on social media by the state BJP and deleted after it caused an uproar – showed Sarma shooting a framed photograph of Assam Congress chief Gaurav Gogoi in a skullcap and a Muslim man. The wall the photo was hung on bore the words “No mercy”. The post was captioned “Point blank shot”.
“This is nothing but a call to genocide – a dream this fascist regime has harboured since decades,” read a post by Congress’s KC Venugopal. “This is not an innocuous video to be ignored as troll content. It is poison spread from the very top, and there must be consequences for this,” he added, calling on action by the judiciary.
An official BJP handle posted a video showing the targeted, ‘point-blank’ murder of minorities. This is nothing but a call to genocide – a dream this fascist regime has harboured since decades.
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