{"id":31805,"date":"2019-03-28T15:50:35","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T10:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=31805"},"modified":"2019-03-28T15:50:35","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T10:20:35","slug":"biryani-for-terrorists-bjp-continues-to-milk-a-false-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/biryani-for-terrorists-bjp-continues-to-milk-a-false-claim\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Biryani for terrorists&#8217;: BJP continues to milk a false claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With less than 15 days to go for the first phase of Lok Sabha polls, political campaigning is expectedly in full swing. On March 26, BJP President Amit Shah was in Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh to address a campaign rally. Addressing the rally, he took a jibe at the erstwhile UPA regime for being soft against terrorists. He said, <em>&#8220;Friends, you tell me, elections are going to be held in the country. Can anybody give a jaw-breaking response to terrorists other than Modiji?&#8230;. Can anybody give a jaw-breaking reply to Pakistan? The country wants a Prime Minister, who just by taking an oath will send shivers down enemies&#8217; spine. For 30 years, you (Congress) have been feeding them (terrorists) biryani and I can say without any hesitation that the time when terrorists were given biryani is over now -translated)&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">WATCH | \u201cDays of serving \u2018biryani\u2019 to terrorists are over,\u201d says BJP president Amit Shah <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pWpYHxYm2f\">pic.twitter.com\/pWpYHxYm2f<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NDTV (@ndtv) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ndtv\/status\/1110498214929588224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 26, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>Fabricated story by 26\/11 prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam<\/h2>\n<p>While targeting the Congress party for feeding biryani to terrorists, the BJP President was referring to a fabricated story propagated by the public prosecutor of the 26\/11 trial, Ujjwal Nikam. During the trial, Nikam, who had argued on behalf of the state, had manufactured a story about Ajmal Kasab being fed biryani in jail to counter an emotional wave supposedly being created in Kasab\u2019s favour. <em>&#8220;Kasab neither asked for biryani nor it was served by the government. I concocted it just to break an emotional atmosphere which was taking shape in favour of Kasab during the trial of the case\u201d, <\/em>Nikam said, <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/Kasab-never-asked-for-biryani-we-fabricated-it-public-prosecutor-Ujjwal-Nikam-says\/articleshow\/46639254.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">speaking<\/a> to the media in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>According to a 2012 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rediff.com\/news\/report\/when-kasab-spoke-in-marathi-during-his-trial\/20121121.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">report<\/a>, Nikam had earlier said, <em>&#8220;On Raksha Bandhan, he had inquired from his lawyer whether some girl would come to tie a Rakhi on his wrist, while on another occasion he threw tantrums for mutton biryani to be served to him in jail&#8221;<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Despite an admission by Nikam himself that the biryani story was a fabrication, BJP leaders on multiple occasions have reiterated the same claim. In November 2018, UP CM <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/biryani-for-terrorists-jibe-yogi-adityanath-targets-congress-party-with-fabricated-claim\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yogi Adityanath<\/a> had also used the same line of political propaganda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With less than 15 days to go for the first phase of Lok Sabha polls, political campaigning is expectedly in full swing. On March 26, BJP President Amit Shah was in Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh to address a campaign rally. 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