A day after Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramiah sparked a row after he said he was “not in favour of a war” with Pakistan over the Pahalgam terror attack, a minister in his government has triggered another controversy by saying that the terrorists would not have asked their targets’ religion before killing them in cold blood.
RB Timmapur, Karnataka’s Excise Minister, told the media that he did not think the killers asked the targets’ religion before shooting them. “A man who is shooting, will he ask caste or religion? He will just shoot and go. Think practically. He will not stand there, ask and then shoot,” he said.
The minister said the country is upset over the heinous attack and alleged that a “conspiracy” was being plotted to paint this as a religious issue. “I feel they didn’t ask about religion when they were carrying out the terror attack. In case they did, there shouldn’t be this madness of using such a statement to politicise the issue based on religion,” the minister in the Congress government said.
