BJP leader H Raja agitated over Central vs Union government

Tamil Nadu By Shilpa Nair December 20, 2022 Read the article

Senior Tamil Nadu BJP leader H Raja spoke in a distasteful manner about bureaucrats who use the term “Union government” instead of “Central government”.

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Speaking at a party event in Tenkasi, he said that those using the phrase were “anti-nationals”.

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He said they must be sent to “Uttar Pradesh or Madhya Pradesh” and made to stand in front of “Yogi Adityanath or a bulldozer”.

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Yogi Adityanath has been using bulldozers to demolish homes and properties of people who mostly belong to the minority community.

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Raja said: “Those who are using the term Union government do so citing that the Constitution says “India is a Union of States”.

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“But Union of states doesn’t mean the present-day Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh or Karnataka. It means the Union of 565 erstwhile states.”

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H Raja, it may be noted, has drawn flak on multiple occasions for his controversial remarks.

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In 2018, he offered an unconditional apology for a video in which he is heard abusing the police and the judiciary.

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In the video, policemen stop him from taking a Ganesh Chathurthi procession through a communally sensitive area, which had been banned by the court.

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While Raja accused the police of being corrupt and “anti-Hindu”, he abused the judiciary using derogatory words.

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