As the recent incident of the brutal assault on two Nigerian students by a mob in a Greater Noida mall questions the safety of Africans in India, former BJP MP Tarun Vijay denies on an international platform that the attacks had no links with racism.
Clearly denying, that the attacks which fatally injured the students were not made due to profound racism in India, Vijay speaking as a panelist on an Al Jazeera debate on the issue said, “To say that Indians can be racist is a most vicious thing because we worship a black god, Krishna is black.”
Claiming the allegations of racism on India false, Tarun Vijay says, “If we were racist, why would we have the entire south (India)? Which is you know, completely Tamil, you know Kerala, you know Karnataka and Andhra. Why do we live with them (if we are racist)? We have blacks, black people around us. You are denying your own nation, you are denying your ancestry, and you are denying your culture…”
Tarun’s statement invited a lot of criticism on social media. Especially from people of different ethnicity who are questioning him of his remarks on the shameful incident of harassment of although he doesn’t fail to play it defensively.
Here are the reactions on Twitter:
So South Indians are here on sufferance? Maybe he will target us Bongs next. @Tarunvijay https://t.co/G5nRLWx1Kl
— Indrani Bagchi (@horror06) April 7, 2017
I said we worship Krishna, which literally em,ans black, we were the first to oppose any racism and were in fact victims of racist British https://t.co/kjSBSNl9w8
— Tarun Vijay (@Tarunvijay) April 7, 2017
“How would he react if a Manipuri, a Naga or an Arunachal person faces an untoward incident?” https://t.co/ui0v9HmgWj
Not making this up!
— Madhu Menon (@madmanweb) April 7, 2017
Bjp#TarunVijay’s statement syng racism ds not exist inIndia as SouthIndians r black yet accptd is shocking..So wat if v r black? V r INDIANS
— khushbusundar (@khushsundar) April 7, 2017
Vijay in his defense, tweeted:
I said we worship Krishna, which literally em,ans black, we were the first to oppose any racism and were in fact victims of racist British https://t.co/kjSBSNl9w8
— Tarun Vijay (@Tarunvijay) April 7, 2017
In may parts of the nation we have different people, in colour and never ever we had any discrimination against them. https://t.co/I7MddEJk5W
— Tarun Vijay (@Tarunvijay) April 7, 2017
I feel the entire statement sas this- we have fought racism and we have people with different colour and culture still never had any racism.
— Tarun Vijay (@Tarunvijay) April 7, 2017
