Independent India's first extremist was a Hindu in Nathuram Godse: Kamal Haasan
Chennai: Southern actor turned politician Kamal Haasan has triggered a row on Sunday when during a poll camaign he said India's first extrement was a Hindu, Nathuram Godse, the assassin of Mahatma Gandhi.
Haasan at a poll campaign in a Muslim dominated area said he was saying this because he was before a Gandhi statute and not because he was addressing Muslims.
"Independent India's first extremist (theevravaadi) was a Hindu, his name is Nathuram Godse. There it begins," Kamal Haasan said at Aravakurichi in Tamil Nadu's Karur district, according to media reports.
The polling in the area is on May 19 in the last phase.
Haasan had written the same in articles earlier. He said held that extremism has no religion.
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