BJP Leader Kailash Vijayvargiya Thinks He Can Identify Bangladesh Citizens By How They Eat Poha
Controversial BJP leader from Madhya Pradesh Kailash Vijayvargiya has given a new twist to Poha. He claimed that he suspected there were some Bangladeshis among construction labourers who worked at his house recently based on their strange eating habits. As expected Twitter erupted with trolls responding to the BJP leader.
Poha is one of the most popular breakfasts and snacks in the country. But controversial BJP leader from Madhya Pradesh Kailash Vijayvargiya has given a new twist to Poha after he claimed that he suspected there were some Bangladeshis among construction labourers who worked at his house recently based on their "strange" eating habits.
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Speaking at a seminar in support of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) in Indore the BJP general secretary said that their "strange" eating habits aroused suspicion about their nationality.
When a new room was being added at his house recently, he found "eating habits" of some of the workers "strange" as "they were eating only 'poha' (flattened rice)", he said.
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After talking to their supervisor and the building contractor, he suspected that these workers were from Bangladesh, the BJP leader said.
Vijayvargiya later told reporters that
"I suspected these workers were residents of Bangladesh. Two days after I became suspicious, they stopped working at my house." "I have not filed any police complaint yet. I only mentioned this incident to warn people," he said.
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As expected, Twitter erupted with trolls responding to the BJP leader for judging the labourers¡¯ ethnicity based on their eating habits. Some also pointed out that how poha is a staple and cheap food and often daily wage labourers eat it because that¡¯s the only thing they can afford.
If eating poha is a proof of being Bangladeshi, then half of India, including my family, is Bangladeshi! https://t.co/VmspQnpYbW
¡ª nikhil wagle (@waglenikhil) January 24, 2020
Has BJP developed technology to find out if you ate poha by testing your shit?
¡ª Sasidharan Pazhoor (@inquestioner) January 24, 2020
Or is Kailash Vijayvargiyavaadi going to do it all by himself?
I've found that a cricketer is likely to be a Bangladeshi as he had "strange" eating habits and were consuming jalebi with poha. pic.twitter.com/uZeZdfRmO6
¡ª MerryBoy (@techie_style) January 24, 2020
No Bengali (anywhere in the world) eat Poha daily..This moron has no idea about Bengali Culture but his Fuhrer has given him responsibility to spread communal hatred in Bengal to polarise 2021 elections !!
¡ª Soumen Chatterjee ?? (@csoumen25) January 23, 2020
Eyeopener for Bengalis..how these sanghis wanna defame us !! https://t.co/HGT6NwnqLw
Poha is one of my favorite breakfast options.
¡ª Pankhuri Pathak ?????? (@pankhuripathak) January 24, 2020
No wonder it is anti - national !
What is next?
Upma?
First Beef eaters were anti- nationals.
¡ª Advaid (@Advaidism) January 24, 2020
Now Poha eaters are anti- nationals.
At this rate everyone other dish other than Khichdi and Rajma Chawal will be under the scanner. https://t.co/zLrAwtZMcn
Earlier, speaking at the seminar, Vijayvargiya also claimed that a Bangladeshi terrorist was keeping a watch on him for the last one and a half years. "Whenever I go out, six armed security personnel follow me. What is happening in this country? Will outside people enter and spread so much terror?" he asked.
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