BJP MP Tejasvi Surya ‘unconditionally withdraws’ his ‘Hindu revival’ remarks

Bengaluru: Bharatiya Janata Party MP Tejasvi Surya has “unconditionally withdrawn” remarks he made at event in Udipi in which he urged for the reconversion of “all those who’ve gone out of the Hindu fold.”

“At a program held in Udupi Sri Krishna Matha two days ago, I spoke on the subject of ‘Hindu Revival in Bharat’. Certain statements from my speech have regrettably created an avoidable controversy. I therefore unconditionally withdraw the statements,” Surya tweeted this morning.

The Karnataka MP and the National President of BJP Yuva Morcha Surya on Saturday in an event held at Sri Krishna Mutt of Udupi said that those who have “left their mother religion” must be brought back on priority.

“Only option left for Hindus is to reconvert all those people who’ve gone out of the Hindu fold...those who’ve left their mother religion must be brought back,” said the MP from Bengaluru South.

During his speech at the event, Surya also said that annual targets must be given to mutts and temples to reconvert all those who left the Hindu religion.

Meanwhile, the Karnataka High Court (Dharwad bench) has imposed a penalty of Rs100,000 (Dh5,000) each on a police inspector and a rehabilitation centre for forcefully keeping a married woman and her three-year-old daughter at the centre.

The court further expressed its displeasure that the act of the policeman, in this case, amounts to moral policing and said that a police inspector can not intervene in the married life of a person.

The verdict was given by a bench headed by Justice N.S. Sanjay Gowda. The woman had filed a petition before the court seeking her release from the rehabilitation centre. The bench has also observed that it is an unfortunate case of a woman being kept at a centre where victims of human trafficking and sexual assault are rehabilitated.