"During my press conference in Bokaro, I said few people are pro-terrorism and pro-Pakistan. If Pakistan gives shelter to terrorists, what is wrong in saying that," he has said.
BJP leader Giriraj Singh stayed defiant amid outrage over his comments branding people from a particular community as terrorists. Sticking by his comments, he said that there were 'friends of Pakistan' in India.
"During my press conference in Bokaro, I said few people are pro-terrorism and pro-Pakistan. If Pakistan gives shelter to terrorists, what is wrong in saying that," he has said.
Giriraj earlier courted controversy when he said that all terrorists belong to a “particular community”.
“Since terrorism is a matter relating to the country and not to a community, why secular leaders remain silent when all persons arrested in terrorism cases belong to a particular community,” he told reporters in Patna on Wednesday.
“Are there only a few to define religious non-discrimination? Is it not true that all the terrorists caught belong to one community? I am not saying that all the people in that community are terrorists but whoever is caught belongs to same community,” he said.
The BJP leader, who was recently booked for his hate speeches, said this mindset was “posing a danger” to the country.
“This is a naked example of pseudo secularism and patronisation of a community for vote bank politics. This mindset is posing danger to the country,” said the Nawada Lok Sabha candidate of the saffron party.
During the poll campaign, Jharkhand and Bihar police had lodged three FIRs against Mr. Singh for saying that those opposed to Narendra Modi had no place in India and they should go to Pakistan.
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