Will commit suicide if Modi doesn’t become PM again: UP Shia Waqf Board chairman

Uttar Pradesh Shia Central Waqf Board chairman Waseem Rizvi has said he would commit suicide if Prime Minister Narendra Modi does not return to power for a second term. He added he would die at the gates of the Ram temple in Ayodhya.

Rizvi said the Muslims had been giving him life threats for supporting the Ram temple, saying that once 'PM Modi is out of power, they will cut me into pieces'.

“I will immolate myself at the gates of the Ram temple in Ayodhya, if anyone else becomes the prime minister in 2019,” he said.

Rizvi has been hitting the headlines ever since he openly supported the construction of Ram temple at the disputed site in Ayodhya.

In 2018, Waseem Rizvi suggested that Muslims who were against building Ram temple in Ayodhya "must go to Pakistan and Bangladesh".

“Those who are opposing the Ram temple in Ayodhya and want to build the Babri Masjid there; people having such fundamentalist mentality should go to Pakistan and Bangladesh. Such Muslims do not have any place in India,” he said.

He had also alleged that fundamentalist Muslim clerics were trying to destroy the country and "they must migrate to Pakistan and Afghanistan"