Hyderabad, May 5 -- A social media post by the Bharatiya Janata Party's Karnataka unit on Saturday, April 4, sparked outrage online, with many condemning the animation video for "Islamophobic hate".

The animated video, captioned "Beware.. Beware.. Beware..!" in Kannada, featured apparent caricatures of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah placing an egg labelled "Muslims" in a nest of alongside three eggs marked as "SC [Scheduled Castes], ST [Scheduled Tribes] and OBC [Other Backward Classes]"

The video shared by the BJP Karnataka on a social media platform depicted a caricature of Gandhi feeding money exclusively to a bird emerging from a "Muslim" egg, which then pushes away other birds from different ...