BJP MLA Nand Kishore Gurjar asks cops to shoot down lockdown violators

'Such people should be treated like anti-nationals. If they are not following government orders, they are terrorists,' the Ghaziabad MLA said.

Police personnel checking motorists during lockdown.(Photo | Debadatta Mallick, EPS) 

LUCKNOW: BJP MLA from Ghaziabad, Nand Kishore Gurjar, has asked the state police to "break their legs who violate the lockdown orders".

In a video that is now going viral on the social media, the MLA can be seen saying that the police can even "shoot them in the legs if people do not listen".

"Such people should be treated like anti-nationals. If they are not following government orders, they are terrorists," he said.

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Gurjar further said that every constable who breaks the legs and shoots the violators would be given a reward of Rs 5,100 by him.

The BJP MLA also warned the clerics of mosques and said that several Muslims had informed him that people were crowding the markets.

"I am warning the clerics that they should inform the police if people do not listen to them," the MLA said.

Gurjar had earlier hit the headlines when he prescribed cow urine as a cure for coronavirus.