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BJP MP Subramaniam Swamy backs Yogi Adityanath's remarks on Mother Teresa

Speed News Desk | Updated on: 10 February 2017, 1:49 IST

On 22 June, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Subramanian Swamy backed BJP MP Yogi Adityanath, a day after the latter alleged that Mother Teresa was a part of a 'conspiracy to Christianise India'.

"You see the issue of Yogi Adityanath expressing his view is not an isolated view. It is a view which has been reduced to books, there is a writer Christopher Hitchens, who has written a best seller book and if you go to Google you would get a lots of books about her," Swamy told ANI.

Swamy said that Mother Teresa had once used her influence to protect a man - accused of looting pensions of middle class people in California - only because he had given her millions of dollars to further the cause of Christianity in India.

Speaking at a Ram Katha programme in UP's Basti on 18 June, Adityanath said that Nobel laureate Mother Teresa was a part of a larger conspiracy to convert Indians to Christianity.

"Mother Teresa was part of a conspiracy to convert Hindus to Christianity. Hindus were targeted in the name of doing service and then converted by her," he said.

Last year, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat alleged that Mother Teresa's service to the poor was aimed at converting them to Christianity.

--With ANI inputs

First published: 22 June 2016, 12:18 IST