With the election season in the country underway, Nalin Kohli, one of the prominent spokespersons of the BJP recently said that BJP President Amit Shah calling Muslim immigrants from Bangladesh “termites” and “infiltrators” was a “perfectly apt analogy”.
Speaking to Al Jazeera’s Mehdi Hasan on the show UpFront, Kohli remarked, “A termite, essentially, and in India, we’re used to it because we do have a lot of termites, they come from the ground and they eat you up hollow from the inside… it’s a perfectly apt analogy.”
The show, titled ‘Is India’s BJP a threat to minorities’, questioned the BJP spokesperson over various issues, including the increase in communal violence, the claim of Hindu terror not existing, Pragya Thakur’s candidature from Bhopal and the idea of a ‘Hindu Rashtra’.