Karnataka BJP has expelled its Tumkur district youth wing President from the party's primary membership for a post praising Nathuram Godse on the social media.
"For your post on social media praising Nathuram Godse, you have not only been removed from the post of Yuva Morcha district President, but also expelled from the primary membership of the party," the expulsion order signed by state BJP chief B S Yeddyurappa, addressed to T H Hanumantharaju read.
The social media post of Hanumantharaju shared by BJP to the media shows the picture of Godse and a vessel that supposedly contains his ashes decorated with flowers next to it.
The message with the picture calling Godse a "great patriot" says his ashes have still not been immersed in the Sindhu river.
Hanumantharaju is not the first in the saffron party to face the ire of the party leadership for praising Godse.
Earlier, BJP candidate Pragya Singh Thakur too had stirred a controversy by calling Godse, the assassin of mahatma gandhi, a true patriot
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