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Congress candidate Urmila Matondkar gets roasted on Twitter for saying 'Hinduism most violent religion'

Twitter fumes about Urmila's most violent religion comment

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  • Apr 06, 2019, 07:05 PM IST

Urmila Matondkar, who recently wondered why people were wondering about her religion, said that Hinduism had become the ‘most violent (religion) of them all’.

Speaking during a news interview, Urmila Matondkar said that under the Modi government the ‘religion which has been known for its religious tolerance has turned out to be most violent of them all’.

She said: "The religion which has been known for its religion tolerance has turned out to be the most violent religion of them all. What is sad is that this sort of terribly heinous actos have been applauded and are constantly going viral. People are made to believe this is how the society always was." 

Read: BJP leader files complaint against Urmila Matondkar for saying 'Hinduism most violent religion'

The actor who joined Congress said that nation was ruled by a ‘kind of dictatorship’, heading in a ‘state of anarchy’ with no freedom of any sort.

Read: How Congress raised bogey of Hindu terror

Matondkar’s statement comes at a time when 600 theatre personalities signed a letter asking people to vote out BJP and allies out of power.

Read: Why is my religion being questioned, asks Urmila 

 

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2. Why am i being asked about my religion?

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The Congress has fielded her from Mumbai North Parliamentary constituency of Maharashtra in the ensuing Lok Sabha elections. In the 2014 General elections, BJP's Gopal Chinayya Shetty won the seat.

Matondkar was inducted into Congress on Wednesday in the presence of Congress spokesperson Randeep Surjewala and newly-appointed Mumbai Congress chief Milind Deora.

The seven-phased Lok Sabha elections are scheduled to be held from April 11 and will go on till May 19.

Maharashtra will go to polls in the first four phases, beginning April 11. Results of the polls will be declared on May 23.

 

Matondkar who recently joined the Congress party, had earlier questioned why she is being asked about her religion. She said she wants to do "politics above this".

"Why am I being asked about my religion? I don't think I have given this right to anyone because that right only belongs to me. I know it, my family knows it and my in-laws know it. I think this is just the beginning. I want to do politics above all this," Urmila told ANI.

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