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EPISODE – XCV
TOPIC: Say no to hate
BLOG: The Times of India
TOPIC: Ruckus ensues over minister Katheria, BJP must rein in hatemongers
GENRE: Editorial

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Ram Shankar Katheria, Smriti Irani’s deputy in HRD ministry and BJP MP from Agra, has denied making inflammatory anti-Muslim remarks at a condolence (A message of condolence is a message in which you express your sympathy for someone because one of their friends or relatives has died recently) meeting in the city for VHP worker Arun Mahaur where Muslims were equated by some speakers to “demons”, “descendants of Ravana” and warned of a “final battle”. However, according to reports backed by audiotapes, Katheria exhorted (If you exhort someone to do something, you try hard to persuade or encourage them to do it) the crowd in Hindi, arguing that “we have to make ourselves powerful” and that “before another is lost, we must show such strength that these killers themselves disappear”.

With both houses of Parliament repeatedly disrupted and the opposition demanding his resignation for what Samajwadi Party MP Ram Gopal Yadav called “inflammatory remarks”, the minister has done a number of flip-flops. At first, on Monday, Katheria defended his remarks, saying that Arun Mahaur was murdered in broad daylight, that there was “too much anger among the Hindu community” and that the “protests will continue until we get justice”. On Tuesday, though, he insisted that “what has been published in newspapers” as his speech is “completely wrong” and that he didn’t name “any community” and only said that the killers “should be hanged”.

No one had the right to kill Arun Mahaur. His killing deserves the greatest condemnation, the guilty must be brought to justice and punished. The police have arrested five Muslim youth on charges of murder and rioting. Equally, no one has the right to take the law into their own hands, deliver mob (A mob is a large, disorganized, and often violent crowd of people) justice or start communal riots. Yet, several BJP leaders at this condolence meeting, where about 5,000 people attended, seemed to urge this path. “If you want to test Hindus, then let’s decide a date,” BJP’s Fatehpur Sikri MP Babu Lal is reported to have said at the meeting.

With assembly elections due in 2017, politics in Uttar Pradesh is entering a trying phase. After the Muzaffarnagar riots of 2013, the last thing India needs is more communal violence. It is incumbent (An incumbent is someone who holds an official post at a particular time) on all political parties to behave responsibly. Law and order is a state responsibility and lapses (A lapse is a moment or instance of bad behaviour by someone who usually behaves well) need to be debated and politically challenged, not responded to with threats of violence. BJP must rein in errant (Errant is used to describe someone whose actions are considered unacceptable or wrong by other people) local leaders. It is time for all sides to urge restraint (Restraints are rules or conditions that limit or restrict someone or something), or we risk opening up dangerous social fault lines again.

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TEST YOUR SKILLS

SYNONYM

ERRANT
a) Normal
b) Correct
c) Drifting
d) Righteous

RESTRAINT
a) Help
b) Liberty
c) Hold
d) Agitation

MOB
a) Individual
b) Single
c) Flock
d) Any of the above

INCUMBENT
a) Unnecessary
b) Binding
c) Strong
d) Weak

EXHORTED
a) Answer
b) Deter
c) Prick
d) Discourage