Watch | What Do Delhiites Think of BJP MP Parvesh Verma’s Call for Economic Boycott of Muslims?

The Virat Hindu Sabha had organised a rally in the national capital on October 9, where Bharatiya Janata Party MP Parvesh Singh Verma had called for the economic boycott of an unnamed community.

The rally was held in Northeast Delhi’s Dilshad Garden to protest against the killing of a Hindu man by six Muslim men in East Delhi’s Sunder Nagri last week. Though the police have ruled out a communal angle to the murder, chalking it down to personal enmity, speakers at the event made direct and indirect statements that targeted the Muslim community.

“Wherever you see them, I say that if you want to set their minds straight … then there is only one remedy, that is complete boycott… Do you agree with this? Raise your hand if you agree. Say with me, we will completely boycott them, we will not buy any goods from their shops, we will not employ them," Verma said.

The Wire's Zeeshan Kaskar spoke to people in Delhi's Connaught Place to understand their opinion on the statements of Verma.

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