Bengaluru: Congress leader Tehseen Poonawalla has handed a dare to BJP union minister for skill development and entrepreneurship, for his reported comment that the hand that touches a Hindu girl’s body should not be there. Hegde had further asked the (Hindu) community to be writers of history and not just its readers.
If boys from other religions touch our Hindu girls, Hindu boys must break their hands and get ready to create history,” Hegde was quoted as saying, by the Deccan Chronicle. In response, Poonawalla tweeted a picture of him hugging his wife Monika Vadera, a Hindu, and dared Hegde to do what he could. “It’s a dare sir!” he said. Karnataka Congress party chief Dinesh Gundu Rao’s wife Tabu Rao also gave it back to Hegde saying “Yes, I was born a Muslim, but we are proud Indians first.
The Constitution, of India which is built on the foundation of secularism, guarantees every individual ‘Liberty of thought, expression,, belief, faith and worship’.” She said she “resents”, Hegde using her as a “pawn” in “cheap politics”. Her reaction came when Hegde said he knew Congress chief Dinesh Gundu, Rao to be “a guy who ran behind a Muslim lady”. Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi observed, “The only skill development Anant Kumar Hegde has done is ask people, to chop hands, kill people, etc.”
