Telangana VHP to protest in support of Nupur Sharma on June 16

Hyderabad: Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) has announced a nationwide sit-in protest on June 16 in support of the now-suspended Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) spokesperson Nupur Sharma for her remarks on against Prophet Muhammad.
The nationwide protests will be held at the organization’s district headquarters’ across the country.
Following the announcement, the Telangana VHP president in a press conference on Wednesday confirmed their participation in nationwide protests to be held on June 16.
State president M Ramaraju claimed that their protest is also against Muslims and alleged that the Shri Ram Navami celebration processions were attacked by extreme Islamic Jihadists at more than 100 locations in the country.
Defending Sharma on her blasphemous remarks, they said, “We feel what Nupur Sharma Ji has commented was not made out of her own but she repeated what many senior Islamic scholars have been saying since long.” They also defended their protest in support of Sharma, claiming that “the protests are a guise under which Hindus are being attacked”.