"The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday (yesterday) held nationwide protests against Pakistan foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari's 'uncivilised remarks' against Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Across the country, BJP workers took to the streets and burnt effigies of Bhutto, and demanded an apology from Islamabad." "The Pakistan foreign minster's remark triggered widespread outrage with the BJP terming it 'highly derogatory, defamatory and full of cowardice'." Bhutto's remarks probably followed on from US State Department's position on immunity to the Saudi Crown Prince. In November, "India expressed its displeasure after US State Department official referred to PM Narendra Modi while talking about immunity to Saudi leader Mohammed bin Salman accused of ordering the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Turkey." TN. "In September, "Saudi Arabia's powerful Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has been appointed prime minister - a post that is traditionally held by the king." BBC. "A royal decree announcing his promotion from deputy PM and defence minister cited an exception to the basic law." Heads of state enjoy immunity from prosecution in the US. During his visit to the US, Bhutto said, "I would like to remind the Minister of External Affairs (EAM) of India that Osama bin Laden is dead but the butcher of Gujarat lives and he is the prime minister of India. He was banned from entering this country until he became prime minister." "This is the prime minister of the RSS" and "while India's EAM inaugurated a bust of Mahatma Gandhi at the UN, he would be knowing that the RSS does not believe in the ideology of Gandhi." The RSS, or Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, "presents itself as a cultural, not a political, organization that nevertheless advocates a Hindu agenda under the banner of hindutva or 'Hinduness'." Britannica. Nathuram Godse, who shot Gandhi, was a volunteer in the RSS, but claimed to have left it to join the Hindu Mahasabha before he shot Gandhi. BBC. "However, Nathuram Godse's brother Gopal Godse stated that all the Godse brothers were members of the RSS at the time of the assassination and blamed the RSS for disowning them," wrote Pritika Chowdhry. Modi was chief minister of Gujarat during communal riots in 2002 when "According to official figures, the riots ended with 1,044 dead, 223 missing, and 2,500 injured. Of the dead, 790 were Muslim and 254 Hindu." wikipedia. "In Gujarat, campaigning for the BJP ahead of assembly polls, Union home minister Amit Shah on Friday, November 25, said perpetrators of violence were 'taught a lesson' in 2002." The Wire. Which perpetrators? "By 2014, Pakistan had nearly vanished from our public discourse. India had broken laps ahead in the race. Pakistan was, at worst, a nuisance state," wrote Shekhar Gupta in December 2019. "That hyphenation has been buried. Just that we have now dug it out again." If we keep talking about Pakistan just to win elections we make it important. Pakistan will love to be hyphenated with India again. Why make it possible?
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