Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief in Ujjain Kundan Chandrawat on Thursday stirred a controversy as he announced a bounty of Rs 1 crore on Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan’s head.
The bounty was in response to the attacks on RSS activists and BJP workers allegedly by CPI(M) members in Kerala in the last few months. Chandrawat said he has property worth over Rs 1 crore and he would give it away as reward for Vijayan’s head.
“I have enough property. If someone brings me the head of Vijayan, I will give my houses and properties to him. Such traitors do not have any right to live in this nation. Such traitors don’t have any right to murder democracy. Did you forget Godhra? 56 were killed.
You have killed 300 workers. We will make Mother India wear three lakh human skulls,” he said while addressing a public gathering in Ujjain. Speaking to media after giving the provocative speech, Chandrawat said: “It is my personal view;gave explosive statement just like Bhagat Singh used bomb on British.They must know Hindus aren’t sleeping”.
He announced the bounty at an event in Ujjain where MP Chintamani Malviya and MLA Mohan Yadav were also present. The Kerala Chief Minister had last week said right-wing organisations, including the RSS, have been trying to divide the country for several years. “The RSS has adopted the organisational structure of Mussolini and the ideology of Hitler. The two dictators had terrorised the world,” he had said.
Commenting on Chandrawat’s remark, Vijayan said, “RSS has taken heads of several”. Meanwhile, CPI (M) leader Sitaram Yechury condemned Chandrawat’s remark, calling it outrageous.
“This is completely outrageous and unacceptable. We very severely condemn this. An elected Chief Minister of state is being threatened so openly by the RSS is an indication of one fact that the RSS enjoys the patronage and protection of the Central Government because of that they are unleashing their politics of violence and threat without any control or scruples. This cannot be tolerated,” Yechury told .