Union Interior Minister Amit Shah has said that Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari should have chosen his words carefully in the letter he wrote to the Western State’s Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on the subject of the reopening. of religious sites amid the coronavirus pandemic.
“I have read the letter. You have made a reference in passing. I think some restraint could have been exercised, ”Shah said in an interview with News18 Group on Saturday in Hindi.
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Koshyari had written to Thackeray last week raising the issue of reopening places of worship in Maharashtra. “I wonder if they are getting some divine premonition to keep putting off reopening places of worship over and over again or if they have suddenly gone ‘secular’, the term they hated.” Koshyari asked Thackeray in his letter.
In his reply, Thackeray said that he does not need a “certificate” in Hindutva from the governor. “You mean that opening religious places is Hindutva, and not opening them means being secular? Secularism is a fundamental basis of the oath he took as governor. Don’t you think so? said the prime minister.
Thackeray also raised the issue of Kangana Ranaut comparing the state to Pakistani-occupied Kashmir (PoK), but did not name the Bollywood actor. “Sir, you mention Hindutva in your letter, but I don’t need any certificates or teaching about Hindutva from you. My Hindutva does not allow me to welcome home a person who called my Maharashtra or Mumbai, Pakistan occupied Kashmir, ”he said.
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