{"id":51946,"date":"2022-08-23T16:21:24","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T10:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/bjp-suspends-raja-singh-arrested-for-making-derogatory-remarks-against-prophet-muhammad-pbuh\/"},"modified":"2022-08-23T16:21:24","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T10:51:24","slug":"bjp-suspends-raja-singh-arrested-for-making-derogatory-remarks-against-prophet-muhammad-pbuh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=51946","title":{"rendered":"BJP suspends Raja Singh arrested for making derogatory remarks against Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA Raja Singh has been taken into custody for making an alleged blasphemous remarks against Prophet Muhammad, in Hyderabad on Tuesday<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>New Delhi, Aug 23: <\/em><\/strong>The BJP on Tuesday suspended its Telangana MLA T. Raja Singh for making derogatory remarks against Prophet Mohammad (PBUH).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a letter to Singh, Member Secretary BJP Central Disciplinary Committee Om Pathak said, &#8220;You have expressed views contrary to the Party&#8217;s position on various matters, which is in clear violation of Rule XXV. 10 (a) of constitution of the Bharatiya Janata Party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I have been directed to convey to you that pending further inquiry, you are suspended from the party and from your responsibilities \/ assignments if any, with immediate effect.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pathak further wrote, &#8220;Please also show cause within 10 days from the date of this notice as to why you should not be expelled from the party.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Your detailed reply must reach the undersigned no later than September 2,&#8221; Pathak added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier in the day, the Hyderabad Police arrested the controversial BJP MLA for making derogatory remarks against Prophet Mohammad (PBUH).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The member of Telangana Legislative Assembly was arrested following huge protests by Muslims in parts of Hyderabad after he uploaded a video on Facebook making derogatory comments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police have booked a case against the MLA from Goshamahal constituency at Dabeerpura police station. He has been booked for promoting enmity between the different groups on grounds of religion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Singh was taken into preventive custody last Saturday for threatening to disrupt comedian Munawar Faruqui&#8217;s show. The comedian&#8217;s show was held amid tight security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Singh is famous for making provocative speeches and derogatory remarks against other religions. In June, he was booked for making offensive remarks against Sufi saint Hazrat Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA Raja Singh has been taken into custody for making an alleged blasphemous remarks against Prophet Muhammad, in Hyderabad on Tuesday New Delhi, Aug 23: The BJP on Tuesday suspended its Telangana MLA T. Raja Singh for making derogatory remarks against Prophet Mohammad (PBUH). In a letter to Singh, Member Secretary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51945,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}