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Bengaluru: State agriculture minister B C Patil, who had recently advocated that all those involved in anti-national activities must be shot at sight and urged the Central government to draft a law in this regard, reiterated the same statement today.

Speaking to the media on Monday, March 2, he said, “I will stand by my earlier statement and will approach the leaders at the Centre to formulate a law to shoot at sight all anti-nationals. In recent times, shouting slogans against India has become a fashion for the youth, which is damaging the social fabric of the country and the essence of patriotism has been lost.”

Clarifying on his ‘shoot at sight’ statement, the minister said, “I have just urged to implement a law for those shouting anti-national slogans and have never said that I myself will shoot such people. If the same mistake is committed on Pakistani soil, then they would have been beheaded. India doesn’t resort to such brutality. Here we have a judicial system, according to which legal actions are taken.”

It can be recalled that earlier, irked by the instances of Kashmiri students in Hubbali and student activist Amulya Leona Noronha raising the “Pakistan Zindabad” slogan, Patil had said that he would meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other Central leaders to promulgate a ‘shoot at sight’ law against ‘anti-nationals’.