Amid a row over Makkal Needhi Maiyam founder Kamal Haasan’s remarks on Nathuram Godse, the BJP said on Monday Haasan does not understand the difference between an assassin and a terrorist.
BJP leader and Union Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said the actor-turned-politician was following the Congress and Communists in showing Hindus “in a bad light to appease minorities”. She was responding to a question about Haasan’s comments in Tamil Nadu that free India’s first “terrorist” was a Hindu as he named Godse, who shot dead Mahatma Gandhi.