Hindu Pakistan will be formed, if BJP wins 2019 polls: Shashi Tharoor

Speaking at an event in Thiruvananthapuram on Thursday, Congress leader Shashi Tharoor said a condition of ‘Hindu Pakistan’ will be formed if the BJP wins the 2019 Lok Sabha election. it would create a condition leading to the formation of a ‘Hindu Pakistan’.

He was quoted as saying, “If they (BJP) win a repeat in the Lok Sabha, our democratic constitution as we understand it will not survive as they will have all the elements they need to tear apart the Constitution of India and write a new one.”

Stating that the new constitution will enshrine principles of Hindu Rashtra and remove equality for minorities, Tharoor said that it will to the formation of a Hindu Pakistan and “that isn’t what Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Sardar Patel, Maulana Azad and great heroes of freedom struggle had fought for.”