The state president of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Kerala, PS Sreedharan Pillai, on Sunday, 14 April, stoked controversy after he said people belonging to the Muslim community can be identified by “removing their clothes.”
Addressing a rally in Attingal, Pillai said, Pillai touched upon the Balakot air strikes, carried by the Indian Air Forces and the questions raised by the Opposition on the number of people killed, reported The News Minute.
“Our Rahul Gandhi, Yechury, and Pinarayi are saying, our soldiers have to go there and see the count of the dead...their caste, religion etc. If it is Islam, there are some signs, no? If you remove their clothes you will be able to know. We have to do all that and return is what they are saying.”Sreedharan Pillai