BJP Leader Ravneet Singh Bittu Booked For Calling Rahul Gandhi ‘Number One Terrorist’

Bengaluru: An FIR has been filed against Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ) leader and Union Minister Ravneet Singh Bittu on Thursday at High Grounds Police Station in Bengaluru. The FIR comes days after Ravneet Singh Bittu sparked controversy with his remarks on Congress leader and Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi for his comments in the US regarding the condition of Sikhs in India. 

Unfazed by the FIR registered against him, Ravneet Singh Bittu said he stands by his comments and is not afraid of police complaints.

Commenting on the development, Bittu, who is Minister of State for Food Processing, said, " Congress Party always tries to intimidate by filing FIRs and police cases. I am not at all concerned." "Whatever Rahul Gandhi has said about the conditions of Sikhs in India, how can I subscribe to that view," he said.

" Rahul Gandhi and his party can file 100 FIRs, I will speak for the unity of the country. I am from the family which did not bother about bullets," said Bittu, the grandson of former Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh, who was killed in a bomb blast.

Asked whether he stands by his comments, the minister said, "Jab padgi bhandi ho, toh bayaan se peeche hat sakta hai koi? (Can anyone wearing a Turban go back on his words".

According to a police officer, "The FIR was registered under sections 353 (2) (making, publishing or circulating a statement or report with false information, rumors, or alarming news), 192 (wantonly giving provocation with intent to cause riot- if rioting be committed; if not committed) and 196 (promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race, place of birth, residence, language, etc., and doing acts prejudicial to maintenance of harmony) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita at High Grounds police station here".

Attacking the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha over the statements about the condition of Sikhs in India, Bittu on Sunday had said if those "manufacturing bombs" were supporting him, he is the "number one terrorist".

Condemning the statement, the Congress had said Bittu was talking "like a senseless man".