The complaint said that the speech is clearly prejudicial to the maintenance of peace and harmony between different religious groups in Rajasthan and in the country as a whole.
It also mentioned that Modi’s speech constitutes a deliberate and malicious act intended to outrage religious feelings and adding insults to the religion and religious beliefs. "In a way, Modi’s speech is instigating Hindus against the Muslims by calling them ‘infiltrators," the complaint read.
The complaint said Modi’s speech was clearly made with an intention to cause and in any event likely to cause fear or alarm in one community against the other. The complaint further says the speech in effect is meant to provoke people from the majority community who bear a grudge against the minority, thereby inciting them to attack the minorities, even at a later stage, anywhere in Rajasthan as also the rest of the country.
It said the speech was deliberately delivered to polarise and incite a section of the public at large on majoritarian lines.
PM Modi, in an election campaign for Banswara BJP candidate Mahendrajeet Singh Malviya on Sunday, April 21, had asked the crowd whether they were ready to surrender their hard-earned wealth and property to the government. He said that "the gold of my mothers, sisters" acquired over the years is not only for show but linked with their self-respect and dignity.
He went on to say that their Mangalsutra, made of gold, is not just a question of money but is linked with their dreams and the Congress in its manifesto, talks about snatching this very gold and property and redistributing it. When the Congress was in power, they had advocated the “first right” of Muslims on the nation’s resources, which actually means, they will acquire the properties and distribute it amongst those who have more children. Would you allow the property to be distributed amongst the infiltrators?” He called the Congress ‘urban naxals’.
Published 23 April 2024, 16:36 IST