Maharashtra: BJP’s Nitesh Rane booked for alleged anti-Muslim hate speech
The MLA from Sindhudurg reportedly asked realty brokers in Navi Mumbai ‘not to deal with non-Hindus’.
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Bharatiya Janata Party MLA Nitesh Rane has been booked for allegedly propagating anti-Muslim hate speech at a program organised to celebrate the Hindu festival of Ganesh Chaturthi, reported India Today on Monday.
Rane and the program’s organiser, Sankalp Gharat, were booked on a complaint by a police official.
The official said that Gharat had organised the seven-day event without requisite permissions at Ulwe in Navi Mumbai. Rane, who is an MLA from Sindhudurg district’s Kankavli, was the chief guest.
According to Mint, Rane asked realty brokers in the region “not to deal with non-Hindus” and to check the Aadhaar cards of persons before making any property deals. He also reportedly asked them to ignore the principle of “sarva dharma samabhava”, or equal respect for all religions.
The remarks sparked protests by the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen. Party spokesperson Imtiaz Jaleel said he plans to visit Mumbai on September 23 and gift copies of the Constitution to the leaders of Maharashtra’s Mahayuti government, which includes the BJP.
The first information report against Rane was registered under sections of the Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita pertaining to the utterance of words with deliberate intent to wound religious feelings, criminal intimidation and “intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace”.
This is not the first time Rane has been booked for alleged anti-Muslim hate speech. He...
