Ex-panchayat member announces Rs 1 crore for Hegde’s tongue

A former Karnataka panchayat member on Tuesday offered Rs 1 crore to anyone who would chop off Union Minister Ananth Kumar Hegde’s tongue for his remark that secular people didn’t know their parents and were unaware of their bloodline.

“Opposing his (Hegde’s) remarks I am announcing a bounty of Rs 1 crore for chopping his tongue and bringing it (over) in one month,” PTI quoted former Kalaburagi zilla panchayat member Gurushant Pattedar as saying. Pattedar said Hedge’s comment hurt the Dalits, Muslims and OBCs.

Addressing an event organised by the Brahman Yuva Parishad in



Koppal district of Karnataka, the Union Minister raised a storm on Monday as he heaped scorn on “secularists”, saying they were like “people without parentage”. He also said the BJP had come to power to “change the Constitution” and would do so in the “near future”.

“There is a new culture now of secularists. If someone says I am a Muslim, or I am a Christian, or I am a Lingayat, or I am a Hindu, I feel very happy because he knows his roots. But these people who call themselves secularists, are like people without parentage or who don’t know their bloodline,” he said.