After Jaitley, now Gadkari slams those returning awards, calls it hypocrisy

October 30, 2015 09:47

Union minister and senior BJP leader Nitin Gadkari slammed the writers, poets, filmmakers and scientists for returning awards, calling it hypocrisy and calling them microscopic minorities. "What hypocrisy is this? Why only to return it when Narendra Modi is the prime minister? The Dadri incident happened in Samajwadi Party-ruled Uttar Pradesh and rationalist MM Kalburgi was killed in Karnataka where Congress is in power," said Gadkari. According to him the "microscopic minorities" should criticise the state governments instead of the Union government and added that these incidents should be condemned.

Earlier, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley had slammed those returning awards calling them rabid anti-BJP elements and said that all the protests were a manufactured revolt against PM Modi and the BJP-led government.

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