AGENCIES /Kolkata
A Kolkata court on Tuesday issued an arrest warrant against Congress MP Shashi Tharoor for a remark he had made last year regarding the formation of a “Hindu Pakistan”.
A Metropolitan Magistrate court in the city issued the warrant against the Thiruvananthapuram MP, based on a case filed by Advocate Sumeet Chowdhary.
In July last year, Tha- roor had said if Bharati- ya Janata Party (BJP) won the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, it would cre- ate a condition leading to the formation of a “Hindu Pakistan”.
Addressing an event in Thiruvananthapuram, Tharoor had said the BJP will write a new Constitu- tion which will pave the way for a nation, much like Pakistan, where the rights of minorities are not respected.
“If they (BJP) win a re- peat in the Lok Sabha, our democratic constitu- tion as we understand it will not survive as they will have all the elements they need to tear apart the constitution of India and write a new one,” the Congress leader had said.
“..that new one will be the one which will enshrine principles of Hindu Rashtra, that will remove equality for mi- norities, that will create a Hindu Pakistan and that isn’t what Mahatama Gandhi, Nehru, Sardar Patel, Maulana Azad and great heroes of freedom struggle fought for,” he
had added.