AAP leader Ashish Khetan claims to have received death threat

May 13, 2017 16:54

AAP leader Ashish Khetan today claimed to have received a "death threat" from fringe Hindu groups, and demanded that Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh initiate action against the culprits.

Khetan said he had on May 9 received a letter stating that he had "crossed all levels" in committing sins against Hindu saints.

"It is because of you (Khetan) that Sadhvi Pragya Singh (an accused in the 2006 Malegaon blasts case) and Virendra Singh Tawde (an accused in the case of murder of rationalist Narendra Dabholkar in 2013) are in jail. People like you deserve only death punishment in a Hindu Rashtra," the letter said.

A former scribe, Khetan has written to the Union home minister seeking action in the matter. He also said that several journalists, writers and activists had been threatened by the right wing forces.

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