Modi's minister Anantkumar Hegde kicks up new row with 'Hindu girl' remark

Union Minister Anantkumar Hegde, natorious for his inflammatory and wild statements, has once again courted a controversy after he publicly declared that any hand that touches a Hindu girl "should not exist". Addressing an event in Kodagu, Hegde said, "We have to rethink about priorities of our society. We shouldn’t think of caste. If a Hindu girl is touched by a hand, then that hand should not exist."

The remarks of the BJP leader were condemned by Karnataka Congress president Dinesh Gundu Rao, who also termed the Union Minister of State for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship as "deplorable".

"Wht are ur achievements after becoming a Union Minister or as MP? Wht are ur contributions for Karnataka's development? All I can say for sure, it's deplorable tht such people have become ministers & have managed to get elected as MP's," Rao tweeted.

However, the condemnation by the Karnataka Congress president Rao didn’t go down well with Hegde, who stooped to new low and dragged his Muslim wife Tabu Rao. "I shall definitely answer this guy @dineshgrao's queries, before which could he please reveal himself as to who he is along with his achievements? I only know him as a guy who ran behind a Muslim lady," Hegde tweeted back.

Union Minister of State for Employment and Skill Development had in that past said that people should identify themselves with their religion and caste rather than being secular. Hegde also said the Constitution too would be changed in accordance with such thinking. 

"We are here to change the Constitution,"Hegde had said during a function organised by the Brahmana Yuva Parishat and women’s organisation at Kukkanur in December, 2017. He also described secular people as those who do not have an identity of their parental blood.

"Those claiming to be secular and progressive do not have an identity of their parents and their blood. One will get self-respect through such identity," he had said.