Controversial Telangana BJP MLA Tiger Raja Naval Singh Lodh is known to create controversy whenever he speaks. From threatening to behead those opposing the Ram temple and vandalizing the homes of Uttar Pradesh voters who didn’t vote for Yogi Adityanath, to calling for shooting Rohingyas in the head, Singh spoke one provocative after another. Speeches attracted attention.
This time, the BJP has decided to take action against the rowdy leader, suspend him from the party and issue a show cause notice for his alleged derogatory remarks against Prophet Mohammad. Raja Singh, MLA from Hyderabad’s suburban constituency Gosha Mahal, was arrested by the Hyderabad Police on Tuesday morning for his alleged remarks.
Counting this, more than 75 cases have been registered against Singh, mostly for hate and inflammatory speeches and for disrupting law and order.
always seen wearing and wearing saffron Tilak on his forehead, Raja Singh Equally popular in the areas of Goshamahal, Mangalhat and Dhulpet in central Hyderabad. The two-time MLA has a stronghold on the dominant Lodha community in his constituency and is known to call himself “devoted”. cow protector”, claimed to have saved “thousands of cows” in Hyderabad.
In an earlier interview to News18, Singh spoke about his association with the RSS and said that even though he had been with the TDP, he had a deep penetration of the Hindutva philosophy. Singh joined the BJP in 2013 and contested the 2014 elections on a BJP ticket. Since then he has won the seat twice for the party.
Tiger Singh, as he is popularly called, was the only sitting BJP MLA in the December 2018 Assembly elections which TRS won a landslide victory and is currently one of the three sitting BJP MLAs in the Telangana Assembly. In the 2014 elections, Singh won his Gosha Mahal seat by a margin of 46,793 votes. His margin of victory in 2018 was 17,734 votes.
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It was Raja Singh who first raised the demand for renaming Hyderabad to Bhagyanagar, a campaign that has become an integral part of the BJP’s agenda in Telangana. In 2018, Singh said that the first objective of the BJP would be to develop the state of Telangana and second would be to rename Hyderabad to Bhagyanagar. He had said at that time, “We will also change the names of Secunderabad and Karimnagar.”
However, his statements, most of which are provocative, have not only attracted arrest and FIR under the Indian Penal Code, but he has also faced suspension by social media platform Facebook.
In June this year, Raja Singh allegedly angered the 12th century Sufi saint Hazrat Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti of Ajmer, Rajasthan, claiming that if Hindus were now coming Dargah Knowing the truth behind it, they would stop coming or bowing their heads. “These days, a lot of Hindus are visiting Ajmer Dargah. I challenge you, when you know the truth you will not go there or bow your head there. Prithviraj Chauhan’s wife was thrown out of it Dargah Will be raped by soldiers,” he had claimed.
On 9 April, when a procession was taken out to celebrate Ram Navami, Singh was involved and used abusive language to demand boycott of Muslim traders. call the muslimstraitor“(traitor), Singh asked people to boycott those who refuse to sing I salute you, Mother,
A few days later, on 23 April, the BJP MLA wrote a letter to the Archaeological Survey. India (ASI), asked them to remove all “non-Hindu religious constructions” in and around the Sri Jogulamba Temple in Gadwal. Or the BJP will “do the needful if it comes to power in Telangana in 2023”, he had threatened.
In March, Raja Singh, along with fellow BJP MLAs M Raghunandan Rao and Etela Rajendra, was suspended till the end of the budget session as he planned to oppose the TRS budget.
in February, Election The Indian commission pulled up the BJP leader for his alleged remarks threatening voters in Uttar Pradesh to vote in favor of Yogi Adityanath or “face action”. “Those who don’t vote for BJP, I want to tell them that Yogi”Yes There has been a demand for installation of thousands of bulldozers in Uttar Pradesh. Areas where Yogi did not voteYes The identification will be done after the election and you know what JCB bulldozers are used for. Tell those traitors of Uttar Pradesh to vote in favor of YogiYes, You will have to chant ‘yogi-yogi’ or else you will be forced to leave the state,” Singh had reportedly threatened in a video days before the UP elections.
In 2020, social media giant Facebook labeled Singh a “dangerous person” who was violating its policy on content, promoting violence and hate. In its statement, Facebook said it had “restricted those who violated our policy to engage in violence and hate presence on our platform. The process of evaluating potential violators is comprehensive. And that’s why we decided to delete his account.”
Singh later claimed that his account was hacked and that he was not on Facebook since 2019.
During the peak of the anti-Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and National Register of Citizens (NRC) protests across the country, Raja Singh made a statement threatening to kill the “Owaisi brothers” – AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi and his brother Akbaruddin Owaisi. “Finish” those opposing CAA and NRC too. A year before that, the legislator had threatened to force all Bangladeshis and Rohingyas living in India to leave the country “at gunpoint”.
During a meeting of the Hindu Dharma Sansad in Udupi, Karnataka in 2017, Singh said in his speech, “Every Hindu should have a sword in his hand”. In the same year, he called for “beheading of those opposing the Ram temple”, which led to tensions across the state.
In the backdrop of the 2015 Dadri lynching episode, in which a Muslim man was killed on suspicion of possessing beef, Raja Singh threatened a similar fate if the students of Osmania University in Hyderabad decided to organize a beef festival on the campus. The plan continued. “I am warning them, that there will be another Dadri-like situation in Telangana. We can give our lives and take our lives too,” Singh was purportedly heard saying in a video.
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Raja Singh’s arrest comes in the backdrop of remarks made in a video released just before stand-up comedian Munawwar Farooqui’s performance in Hyderabad on Tuesday.
Despite Singh’s threats that he would disrupt the show and amidst tight security, Farooqui performed on 20 August. The stand-up comedian performed ‘Dongri to Nowhere’ with around 500 people at Shilpa Kala Vedika in Hyderabad. Policemen present on the spot.
In a 10-minute video, Singh says he has “researched Farooqui’s almighty and his followers who wear skull caps” and makes derogatory remarks to Prophet Mohammad, as carried out by a suspended BJP spokesperson. was. Nupur Sharma In a TV debate a few months back.
Singh was arrested on Tuesday morning after Muslim organizations took to the streets to protest his statements. But the BJP leader defended himself, claiming that it was a “comedy video” and that he had made no mention of the Prophet.
Speaking to News18, TRS leader Krishnak said: “What Raja Singh said is similar to Nupur Sharma’s views. Does BJP support the statements of its MLA? If not, they should also be suspended. It seems that BJP’s efforts are well planned and politically motivated as the whole agenda is an attempt to disturb law and order. Telangana is living peacefully and BJP is unable to digest it. Their modus operandi is to incite communal disharmony and to gain politically. ,
Hitting back at TRS, BJP spokesperson Krishna Sagar Rao said: “BJP, as a national party, does not believe in discourse of hate and abuse. We believe and respect all religions equally. Raja Singh is not an office-bearer of BJP. He is an elected representative. He has the freedom to speak, but he has no freedom to abuse him.”
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