President of Tamil Nadu Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) unitTamilisai Soundararajan on Monday slammed actor-politician Kamal Haasan forsaying that the first terrorist of independent India was a Hindu.
Campaigning for his party Makkal Needhi Maiam’s candidatefor the May 19 Assembly by-election in Aravakuruchi in Karur district onSunday, Haasan has said: “The first terrorist of an independent India wasa Hindu — Nathuram Godse.”
It was Godse who shot dead Mahatma Gandhi on 30.1.1948 inNew Delhi.
“I am here to question that killing,” Haasan said.
Reacting to this, BJP leader Soundararajan in a tweet saidrecalling Gandhi’s assassination now and calling it Hindu terrorism wascondemnable.
“Standing amidst minorities in TN by-election campaign,he is lighting a dangerous fire to gain votes by minority appeasement. Kamaldidn’t opine on recent Sri Lanka bomb blast, why?” Soundararajan tweeted.
“He (Kamal) threatened to leave India when his film(“Vishwaroopam”) screening was prevented by religious groups! But nowhe calls himself true Indian! True political acting started now having lost thechances in screenplay,” he said.