"Appeasement politics has created such an environment....The question is how Bengal is being driven by this appeasement politics. And why is there such anti-Hindu thinking?" Thakur said speaking to reporters on Saturday.
"West Bengal is the land where 'Maa Kali' is worshipped in every year. Bengal is the land where Chaitanya Mahaprabhu was born..where great saints like Bankim Chatterjee, Rabindra Nath Tagore, Swami Vivekananda and Aurobindo Ghosh were born. Today, the kind of anti-Hindu environment the Ch
"They (Congress) take anti-Hindu stand, insult Hindus...and had even put affidavits questioning the existence of Lord Ram in the Supreme Court. So I do not expect much from the Congress party because they repeatedly take anti-Hindu stand," the Union Minister said.
Hindu activist Srikanth Pujari, whose arrest triggered a political controversy in Karnataka, was granted bail by a court in Hubballi on Friday, with BJP claiming that there was no case and Pujari was arrested in accordance with the "anti-Hindu policies" of the Congress.
A delegation of BJP leaders on Wednesday met Karnataka governor Thawar Chand Gehlot and submitted a memorandum against the Siddaramaiah government for the arrest of a kar sevak (volunteer) in Hubballi.
On the arrest of a person in Karnataka's Hubballi for alleged involvement in the riots after the Babri Masjid demolition in 1992, Karnataka BJP president BY Vijayendra on Tuesday accused the Congress-led state government of being "anti-Hindu".
BJP leader Basanagouda Patil Yatnal on Monday slammed former Karnataka Minister and Congress leader Holalkere Anjaneya for his statement that the state Chief Minister Siddaramaiah "is our Rama". Yatnal cautioned him to talk about Lord Ram and other Hindu deities with respect and dignity.
BJP leader Sudhanshu Trivedi slammed the Congress' party's anti-Hindu stance citing Acharya Pramod's recent remark that "Congress doesn't want the support of Hindus".
HinduACTion and Namaste Shalom Multi-faith Alliance organised a timely Congressional briefing on Tuesday in support of Israel and against rising anti-Hindu bigotry and antisemitism in the US and Canada.
Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) Joint General Secretary Surendra Jain on Saturday said that the Tamil Nadu government should come out from its anti-Hindu mindset adding that the Stalin government is banning peaceful programmes being conducted by Hindu organizations in the state.
After the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) called the coordination committee meeting an anti-Hindu meeting, Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut said that every religion in this country is respected.
Amid a row over Tamil Nadu Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin's remarks, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national spokesperson Sambit Patra on Wednesday accused the INDIA alliance of conspiring to abolish "Hinduism".