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Mouths of Islamic clerics also stink, says BJP's UP chief
Varanasi, June 16
In remarks that will trigger
controversy, the BJP's Uttar Pradesh unit chief Laxmikant Bajpayi on
Tuesday said he found the mouth of Islamic clerics stinks.
Reacting
to the statement by state Urban Development Minister Mohammad Azam Khan
that yoga and Yogis smelt of communalism, he said: "If he finds yoga
and yogis stinking, I feel the same coming from the mouths of maulanas."
Bajpayi, who was visiting the parliamentary constituency of
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, however, sought to clarify that his remark
was in reaction to what the minister said.
Accusing Azam Khan
of crossing all "decent limits of political discourse time and again",
Bajpayi said the minister should learn to respect the point of view of
others.
He also slammed the state government's response to the
barbaric killing of a journalist in Shahjahanpur who was set on fire
allegedly at the behest of a state minister, and said that "murder of
democracy was in the DNA of the Samajwadi Party".