Teach lesson like Adityanath for ‘land jihad’, BJP’s T Raja Singh tells Uttarakhand CM
The Telangana MLA made the remark at an event organised by a Hindutva group in Uttarkashi calling for the demolition of an allegedly illegal mosque.
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Telangana Bharatiya Janata Party leader T Raja Singh on Sunday urged Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami to follow Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s policy of “teaching a lesson” to those involved in alleged land jihad in the hill state, PTI reported.
“Land jihad” is a Hindutva conspiracy theory that Muslims plot to usurp public land by illegally building religious structures on them.
Singh, a Telangana MLA, was addressing a mahapanchayat, or conclave, organised by the Hindutva group Devbhoomi Vichar Manch in Uttarakhand’s Uttarkashi seeking the demolition of the town’s Jama Masjid.
Hindutva groups have been demanding that the mosque be demolished, claiming that it was built illegally. However, the district administration had said that the mosque was built legally in 1969 and had been registered with requisite documents, The Times of India reported.
Addressing the mahapanchayat on Sunday, Singh said that he had travelled from Hyderabad to urge Dhami to have a “chai pe charcha”, or a discussion over tea, with Adityanath.
The Uttarakhand government should use bulldozers to take action against “land jihadis”, Singh said. He said that the Dhami government has the support of one crore Hindus residing in the state and it should respect their sentiments.
“The way Yogi ji teaches a lesson to land jihadis in Uttar Pradesh, you [Dhami] also need to...
