By Anadolu staff
ANKARA (AA) – Police in southern India's Kerala state have registered a case against a federal minister for allegedly making statements that promote enmity between different groups following bomb blasts in the state last week, media reports said Tuesday.
The case was registered against Deputy Information Technology Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar after he “posted statements and video on his social media accounts with the intention of disrupting the communal harmony in Kerala and incite violence,” according to the Press Trust of India.
Three deaths and more than 50 injuries were recorded in an attack at a Jehovah's Witnesses convention in the state. A suspect claimed responsibility for the attack and was arrested.
Chandrasekhar also shared a complaint made against him by the main opposition Indian National Congress party in Kerala, which said he made “factually incorrect statement and politically motivated statements with the intension of promoting communal hatred and disharmony among different religions in Kerala.”
After the blasts last week, Chandrasekhar targeted Kerala's Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and wrote on X: “Sitting in Delhi and protesting against Israel, when in Kerala open calls by Terrorist Hamas for Jihad is causing attacks and bomb blasts on innocent Christians.”
Chandrasekhar said Tuesday that two INDIA (Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance opposition alliance) partners Rahul Gandhi of the Indian National Congress party and Vijayan have jointly filed a "case" against him.
“Two of biggest appeasers in Indian politics who shamelessly appease poisonous radical violent organizations … trying to threaten me with a case for exposing their appeasement of Hamas,” he said.