Lucknow, Oct. 28 -- Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) national president and former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati today strongly condemned a controversial remark by former BJP MLA Raghavendra Pratap Singh about Muslim women and urged the government to take strict legal action against those responsible.
In a post on X, Mayawati described the allegedly communal and hateful remark, widely reported as "bring Muslim girls, get a job", as "despicable" and "narrow-minded." She warned that statements and actions framed as opposition to religious conversion or "love jihad," and the vigilante measures that sometimes follow, are fostering communal and caste-based hatred, unrest and threats to people's lives, property and faith across Uttar Pradesh, U...