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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.

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00:00So viewers, we saw that there was a huge unrest in Bareilly, in the state of
00:15Uttar Pradesh on 26th of September 2025. There was a campaign which was going on under the name
00:21I Love Mohamad and after the Friday prayers on that day, everything turned violent. There was
00:27a huge mob and after that, of course, there were several developments. But talking on this issue
00:32I have today, Anila Singh, she is the national spokesperson of the Bhartya Janata Party. Thank
00:38you so much, Anila ji, for speaking with Aesha and its news. You know, I want to pose a very
00:42straightforward question to you. Whenever we talk about any sort of communal violence in the state
00:46of Uttar Pradesh, opposition says that BJP is the one who is trying to consolidate Hindu votes
00:52by polarizing the, you know, the politics. At the other side, we see that, you know,
00:57the Bhartya Janata Party says that no, it's the SP and the Congress which is trying to play the
01:02appeasement politics. My question to you is which one is true and do you think that we live in the
01:07times where we have to just accept this fact that polarization has become an election tool
01:12and especially in the state of Uttar Pradesh? My Ram Ram to all. And firstly, I would like to
01:20correct you if you talk about the Bareilly and prior that if you talk about the Asambhal,
01:25it was not communal riot at all. It was not in between Hindu and Muslim. It was police administration
01:31clashed with the rioters. So no Hindus were involved in it. Though unfortunately, many, many,
01:38many, many, many, many political parties, many organizations and people in our country
01:44and internationally, they want to portray that whatever happens with the Muslims here in this
01:51country, that is because of the Hindu Muslim. They want to prove the fact that present governments,
01:56whether we talk about the center or Uttar Pradesh or any of the Bharti Janata Party governed states,
02:02they target minorities and they are the government of major majoritarian people living in this
02:09respective state of the country as well. So if I talk about the Bareilly, I will say I love Muhammad,
02:15banner poster, no problem at all. Our constitution gives this right to every person. They can very well
02:22love their Allah, God, Jesus, whosoever and they can show it also. They can carry out procession also.
02:31Perfect. No problem in that. But when you carry posters of I love Muhammad and then you carry
02:38petrol bombs, you carry sticks with you, you carry illegal arms, you attack police administration there.
02:46More than 30 police personals, they are badly injured, they are hospitalized. So what is the thought
02:53process? Thought process is the conspiracy. Conspiracy, what conspiracy? Conspiracy is that they are going to
02:59create rakas here. They are going to create chaos here. They are being funded from outside and then it
03:06is being covered by the media, all types of media. Then it will go to the international media. Then the
03:12discussions will be there in the assemblies of the Congress of UK, US, Canada, XYZ and the issue is going
03:19to come in UN that present governments in in Bharat and if I talk about Uttar Pradesh as well, they are
03:27targeting minorities and they and the police they are going to portray as an oppression tool and reality
03:35is far away from this because they know that how India is progressing, how Bharat is progressing. Last
03:41quarter our GDP was 7.8% where USA GDP, UK GDP or the China they are dragging, they are dragging behind.
03:51We are going ahead. We are strongly claiming permanent seat in UN. So it is a it is an international
03:59conspiracy and that is why Uttar Pradesh chief minister had to use such hard words that if you
04:05are not going to behave yourself right, we know very well how to treat you. Anilajji you often speak in
04:12your comments about how the other you know party stalwarts is actually using inflammatory speeches but right
04:19now you spoke about the hard words of Yogi Adityanath. Don't you think that he's seen more as a polarizing
04:26figure rather than a unifying chief minister because the speeches that he has also made is no good as well.
04:31I don't know what type of mindset has been nurtured in our nation because he is a bhadwa dhari
04:43chief minister, he is a yogi, he is a mahan, he is a peethadesh. That is why he is being portrayed that he
04:50polarizes. If you check out the social schemes implementation in Uttar Pradesh you will find
04:56that the majority people who had been benefited by the social schemes come from one particular
05:03religious community and that is Muslims. So how can you say that he polarizes? Reality is 99%
05:11political parties in this country they do appeasement politics for one particular religious
05:16community because they are their vote bank. Here we say that we are not going to appease anybody and
05:20definitely we are not going to target any majority population because time and again you take them for
05:26granted. If you say that bhagwa is something to communalize then why Sanatini's had to fight
05:33500 years, 500 years plus to get Ram Lala Mandir constructed? This is the irony.
05:39I want to come at this point if you just leave all these uh you know okay I understand there are
05:44social schemes happening which also cater to the minority but what about the bulldozer, so-called
05:49bulldozer justice. You know we have already seen supreme court making a very uh big critique of the
05:55government's move where it actually says that you you cannot you know do this without the due process
06:01of law you cannot do this you cannot bulldoze the properties of people who are on only you know accused
06:06criminally but they don't have any you know trial or they don't have any judgment yet but how can you
06:12just go ahead and demolish these properties don't you think that this is wrong even if the supreme court has
06:16come come up and said and criticize the government? With all due respect to respect to uh honorable
06:23supreme court I think they should let the chief ministers run their own state secondly I will
06:30like to tell you here because even I come from the background of police administration I know one thing
06:35very well that government machinery they are never ever going to take any wrong step under the pressure of
06:44anybody because they know that governments are going to come and go today Bharti Jinta Party
06:49government is there yesterday it was Samajwadi Party tomorrow you never know which government is
06:54going to form in Uttar Pradesh so they do not want to do anything wrong on the papers so whenever any
07:00illegal building is being uh bulldozed proper action is being taken proper paperwork is being followed and
07:07then the action is being taken but in this particular case in the Bareilly clashes whosoever
07:12was accused the properties of those accused were also immediately demolished where is the paper where
07:18is the due process of law a paperwork paperwork always happens and let me tell you that illegal construction was
07:26there on the municipal council's uh land so they were bulldozed they were given they were given notices
07:32earlier as well but they thought you know nothing is going to happen and we can keep on dragging and
07:37tomorrow our government will come and nothing is going to happen but let me just give you an example
07:44that today if I do something and I become a national sensation or a state sensation and everybody starts
07:51talking about Anila Singh and Anila Singh's organization definitely I will come in eyes everybody
07:57will like to know that who Anila Singh is what is her background what what does she do what is her work
08:03and when things come up that okay in this state uh where 25 more than 25 crores of people live
08:10okay these these these these these are the writers or the criminals or the dance mafias they are they
08:15have got so much of illegal work as well so the proper paperwork is being followed that I am 100 percent
08:21sure any picture which is being portrayed on the media is absolutely incorrect paper work is always
08:27performed yeah you earlier spoke about the you know whichever government is in place we have seen
08:33in Uttar Pradesh you know clashes happening but there have been clashes consistently you know in 2006 we had
08:40Aligarh clashes in 2013 Muzaffargarh happened then Bichnor then Kaasgansh then Veerai Chiv all of these
08:48controversies are happening again and again in the state of Uttar Pradesh don't you think that the
08:52intelligence needs to be on its toes all the time why is it that a mob you know suddenly gathers
08:59possessing guns pistols cartridges stones sticks don't you think that this is a big failure on the
09:06part of the government which actually you know boasts about the law and order situation in the state and
09:11how it has improved in the past years see uh since 2017 no communal riot has happened in Uttar Pradesh
09:22let me make myself very very clear on it no criminal riots in Uttar Pradesh yes before 2017
09:30we have seen time and again and time and again time and again communal conflicts happening in Uttar
09:36Pradesh and i come from western Uttar Pradesh western Uttar Pradesh was called the uh nursery of terrorism
09:43of crime this is what western Uttar Pradesh used to be called was named secondly if i talk about the
09:51Bareilly Bareilly's intelligence was not fair procession was allowed police administration was alert
09:58otherwise Hina ji believe me believe me i don't know how many lives would have been lost if police
10:05administration was not alert in 2013 during samajwadi party's government you saw the clashes
10:12hindu muslim clashes and how many people died all right so because of the alertness of the police
10:19administration situation was controlled no no life lost so that is an achievement of the Bareilly
10:27police administration how whenever these kind of protests happen uh the internet is shut down for a
10:33couple of days we have seen that you know in several instances now in India happening that there
10:38are uh consistent internet shutdowns there are people who are put under house arrest why all of this
10:45is happening uh is there any strong case to it because we have seen that happening across political uh
10:52parties where the ruling bjp actually puts uh people uh people the leaders of the other parties under house
10:59of the people of the people of the country and especially the trust of the minority
11:08um this country was divided on the lines of the religion one became islamic republic of pakistan all
11:17right and we bharat all right india that is bharat bharat that is india okay and there was no word
11:27no secular word in our preamble it was put in by mrs indra gandhi and why it was due to appeasement
11:36because this is a common process whenever there is a serious law and order situation then the shutdown
11:43of internet because we know that hundreds of groups are being made on whatsapp and then fake news and the
11:51all sort of steps are being taken to create ruckus and you know situation can get really great so the
11:59internet is being shut down by any of the government i will say so but i what i want to say is here that
12:06when our can 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 i'm not talking about the
12:17socialists i'm talking about the secular but i will tell you sanatani as a hindu we know that we
12:23are the biggest secular people there was absolutely no need to put that word in the preamble but yet it
12:30was injected because they wanted to appease religious community from islam and this is happening
12:38continuously it is happening so if i talk if i talk if i talk about bjp government government states here
12:45that if you are going to create ruckus if you are going to take law and order in your hand we are
12:49not going to allow you that if we have to put you under house arrest we will do that if you have to
12:54shut down the internet we will do that if you are going to i mean attack police administration we are
13:00going to take action if you are going to do any sort of encouragement illegally we are going to take action
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