In this EXCLUSIVE interview, Anila Singh, National Spokesperson of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), addresses the recent unrest in Bareilly triggered by the 'I Love Muhammad' campaign. Anila Singh highlights police efforts, condemns violence, and defends the government’s actions, including the demolition of illegal properties linked to rioters. Watch as she responds to criticisms of polarization, internet shutdowns, and the delicate communal balance in Uttar Pradesh.
00:00So, viewers, we saw that there was a huge unrest in Bareilly, in the state of Uttar Pradesh on 26th of September 2025.
00:18There was a campaign which was going on under the name I Love Mohammed.
00:22And after the Friday prayers on that day, everything turned violent.
00:27There was a huge mob. And after that, of course, there were several developments.
00:31But talking on this issue I have today, Anila Singh, she is the national spokesperson of the Bhartia Janata Party.
00:37Thank you so much, Anila ji, for speaking with Aishranet News.
00:40You know, I want to pose a very straightforward question to you.
00:43Whenever we talk about any sort of communal violence in the state of Uttar Pradesh,
00:47opposition says that BJP is the one who is trying to consolidate Hindu votes by polarizing the politics.
00:55At the other side, we see that, you know, the Bhartia Junta Party says that,
00:59no, it's the SP and the Congress which is trying to play the appeasement politics.
01:03My question to you is, which one is true?
01:05And do you think that we live in the times where we have to just accept this fact
01:09that polarization has become an election tool, and especially in the state of Uttar Pradesh?
01:15My Ram Ram to all.
01:19And firstly, I would like to correct you if you talk about the Bareilly and prior to that,
01:24if you talk about the Asambhal, it was not communal riot at all.
01:27It was not in between Hindu and Muslim.
01:29It was police administration clashed with the rioters.
01:33So no Hindus were involved in it.
01:36Though, unfortunately, many, many, many, many, many political parties, many organizations,
01:42people in our country and internationally, they want to portray that whatever happens
01:49with the Muslims here in this country, that is because of the Hindu Muslim.
01:54They want to prove the fact that present governments, whether we talk about the Centre or Uttar Pradesh
01:59or any of the Bharti Janta Party-governed states, they target minorities
02:04and they are the government of majoritarian people living in this respective state of the country as well.
02:11So if I talk about the Bareilly, I will say, I love Mohammed.
02:15Ben a poster, no problem at all.
02:17Our constitution gives this right to every person.
02:20They can very well love their Allah, God, Jesus, whosoever.
02:26And they can show it also.
02:29They can carry out procession also. Perfect.
02:32No problem in that.
02:33But when you carry posters of I love Mohammed,
02:37and then you carry petrol bombs, you carry sticks with you,
02:41you carry illegal arms, you attack police administration there.
02:46More than 30 police personnel, they are badly injured.
02:50They are hospitalized.
02:51So what is the thought process?
02:53Thought process is the conspiracy.
02:55Conspiracy, what conspiracy?
02:57Conspiracy is that they are going to create ruckus here.
03:00They are going to create chaos here.
03:02They are being funded from outside.
03:04And then it is being covered by the media, all types of media.
03:09Then it will go to the international media.
03:11Then the discussions will be there in the assemblies of the Congress of UK, US, Canada, XYZ.
03:18And the issue is going to come in UN that present governments in in Bharat.
03:24And if I talk about Uttar Pradesh as well, they are targeting minorities and they and the police,
03:30they are going to portray as an oppression tool.
03:33And reality is far away from this because they know that how India is progressing,
03:39how Bharat is progressing.
03:41Last quarter, our GDP was 7.8%.
03:44When USA GDP, UK GDP or the China, they are dragging, they are dragging behind.
03:51We are going ahead.
03:52We are strongly claiming permanent seat in UN.
03:56So it is a, it is an international conspiracy.
03:59And that is why Uttar Pradesh chief minister had to use such hard words that if you are not
04:06going to behave yourself, writers, we know very well how to treat you.
04:10Anilajji, you often speak in your comments about how the other, you know, party stalwarts
04:17is actually using inflammatory speeches.
04:19But right now you spoke about the hard words of Yogi Adityanath.
04:23Don't you think that he is seen more as a polarizing figure rather than a unifying chief minister?
04:29Because the speeches that he has also made is no good as well.
04:32I don't know what type of mindset has been nurtured in our nation.
04:41Because he is a Bhagavad-Dhari chief minister.
04:44He is a yogi.
04:45He is a Mahan.
04:46He is a peethadish.
04:47That is why he is being portrayed that he polarizes.
04:51If you check out the social schemes implementation in Uttar Pradesh, you will find that the majority
04:58people who had been benefited by the social schemes come from one particular religious community
05:04and that is Muslims.
05:06So how can you say that he polarizes?
05:09The reality is 99% political parties in this country, they do appeasement politics for one
05:15particular religious community because they are their word bank.
05:18Here we say that we are not going to appease anybody and definitely we are not going to
05:22target any majority population because time and again you take them for granted.
05:27If you say that Bhagavad is something to communalize, then why Sanatini's had to fight 500 years,
05:34500 years plus to get Ram Lala Mandir constructed?
05:38This is the irony.
05:40I want to come at this point.
05:41If you just leave all these, you know, I understand there are social schemes happening
05:46which also cater to the minority.
05:48But what about the bulldozer, so called bulldozer justice?
05:51You know, we have already seen Supreme Court making a very big critique of the government's
05:56move where it actually says that you cannot, you know, do this without the due process
06:01of law.
06:02You cannot do this.
06:03You cannot bulldoze the properties of people who are only, you know, accused criminally,
06:07but they don't have any, you know, trial or they don't have any judgment yet.
06:11But how can you just go ahead and demolish these properties?
06:14Don't you think that this is wrong even if the Supreme Court has come, come up and said
06:18and criticized the government?
06:21With all due respect to respect to Honorable Supreme Court, I think, uh,
06:25they should let the chief ministers run their own state.
06:28Secondly, I will like to tell you here because even I come from the background of police administration.
06:34I know one thing very well that government machinery, they are never ever going to take
06:42any wrong step under the pressure of anybody because they know that governments are going
06:46to come and go.
06:47Today, Bharti Jinta Party government is there.
06:49Yesterday, it was Samajwadi Party.
06:50Tomorrow, you never know which government is going to form in Uttar Pradesh.
06:56So they do not want to do anything wrong on the papers.
06:59So whenever any illegal building is being bulldozed, proper action is being taken.
07:05Proper paperwork is being followed.
07:07And then the action is being taken.
07:08But in this particular case, in the Bareilly clashes, whosoever was accused, the properties
07:13of those accused were also immediately demolished.
07:16Where is the paper work?
07:17Where is the due process of law?
07:20Paperwork always happens.
07:23And let me tell you that illegal construction was there on the municipal council's land.
07:29So they were bulldozed.
07:30They were given, they were given notices earlier as well, but they thought, you know, nothing
07:35is going to happen and we can keep on dragging and tomorrow our government will come and nothing
07:40is going to happen.
07:41But let me just give you an example, Hinatji, that today, if I do something and I become a
07:47national sensation or a state sensation and everybody starts talking about Anila Singh
07:53and Anila Singh's organization, definitely I will come in eyes.
07:56Everybody will like to know that who Anila Singh is?
07:59What is her background?
08:00What does she do?
08:01What is her work?
08:03And when things come up that, okay, in this state where more than 25 crores of people live,
08:10okay, these, these, these, these, these are the writers or the criminals or the dance
08:14mafias.
08:15They have got so much of illegal work as well.
08:17So the proper paperwork is being followed.
08:20That I am 100% sure.
08:22Any picture which is being portrayed on the media is absolutely incorrect.
08:26People work is always performed.
08:28Yeah.
08:29You earlier spoke about the, you know, whichever government is in place.
08:32We have seen in Uttar Pradesh, you know, clashes happening, but there have been clashes consistently.
08:38You know, in 2006, we had Aligarh clashes.
08:42In 2013, Muzaffar Gad happened, then Bichnor, then Kaas Ganj, then Veerai.
08:47If all of these controversies are happening again and again in the state of Uttar Pradesh, don't you think that the intelligence needs to be on its toes all the time?
08:56Why is it that a mob, you know, suddenly gathers, possessing guns, pistols, cartridges, stones, sticks?
09:03Don't you think that this is a big failure on the part of the government, which actually, you know, boasts about the law and order situation in the state and how it has improved in the past years?
09:13See, since 2017, no communal riot has happened in Uttar Pradesh.
09:22Let me make myself very, very clear on it.
09:25No communal riots in Uttar Pradesh.
09:28Yes, before 2017, we have seen time and again, time and again, time and again, communal conflicts happening in Uttar Pradesh.
09:37I come from Western Uttar Pradesh. Western Uttar Pradesh was called the nursery of terrorism, of crime.
09:44This is what Western Uttar Pradesh used to, was named.
09:49Secondly, if I talk about the Bareilly, Bareilly's intelligence was not fair.
09:54Procession was allowed.
09:56Police administration was alert.
09:58Otherwise, Hina Ji, believe me, believe me, I don't know how many lives would have been lost if police administration was not alert.
10:07In 2013, during Samajwadi Party's government, you saw the clashes, Hindu-Muslim clashes, and how many people died.
10:15Alright.
10:16So, because of the alertness of the police administration, situation was controlled.
10:22No, no life lost.
10:24So, that is an achievement of the Bareilly police administration.
10:29How, whenever these kind of protests happen, the internet is shut down for a couple of days.
10:34We have seen that, you know, in several instances now in India happening, that there are consistent internet shutdowns.
10:41There are people who are put under house arrest.
10:44Why all of this is happening?
10:46Is there any strong case to it?
10:49Because we have seen that happening across political parties, where the ruling BJP actually puts people, the leaders of the other parties, under house arrest.
11:00Don't you think that this will somehow erode the trust of the people of the country, and especially the trust of the minority?
11:06This country was divided on the lines of the religion.
11:12One became Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
11:16Alright.
11:17And we, Bharat.
11:19Alright.
11:20India that is Bharat, Bharat that is India.
11:23Okay.
11:24And there was no word, no secular word in our preamble.
11:29It was put in by Mrs. Indra Gandhi.
11:33And why?
11:34It was due to appeasement.
11:36Because this is a common process.
11:38Whenever there is a serious law and order situation, then the shutdown of internet, because we know that hundreds of groups are being made on WhatsApp.
11:49And then fake news and the all sort of steps are being taken to create ruckus.
11:55And, you know, situation can get really great.
11:58So the internet is being shut down by any of the government, I will say so.
12:02But what I want to say is here, that when our nation got divided in between the two countries on the lines of the religion.
12:12And if I talk about the preamble, we did not have this word, the secular.
12:17I am not talking about the socialists.
12:18I am talking about the secular.
12:20But I will tell you, Sanatanis, as a Hindu, we know that we are the biggest secular people.
12:26There was absolutely no need to put that word in the preamble.
12:29But yet it was injected because they wanted to appease religious community from Islam.
12:36And this is happening.
12:38Continuously it is happening.
12:39So if I talk about BJP government, the government states here, that if you are going to create ruckus, if you are going to take law and order in your hand, we are not going to allow you that.
12:50If we have to put you under house arrest, we will do that.
12:53If you have to shut down the internet, we will do that.
12:55If you are going to attack police administration, we are going to take action.
13:01If you are going to do any sort of encroachment illegally, we are going to take action against you.
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