The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Ranjeet Bahadur Srivastava has asked the voters to cast votes in favour of Prime Minister Narendra Modi if they wanted to ‘destroy’ Muslims, a media report said.

The news gathering Asian News International (ANI) quoted the BJP leader as saying: “In the past five years, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has made attempts to break the morale of the Muslims. Vote for PM Modi if you want to destroy the breed of Muslims. Despite Partition, the Muslim population is increasing in the country and soon they will able to get the grip on the power through voting.”

He said after the Lok Sabha elections, the party will bring machines from China to shave 10-12 thousands of Muslims and later will force them to adopt Hindu religion, the report quoted him as saying.

Voting for the second phase of the Lok Sabha elections in Uttar Pradesh concluded at 5 pm with a turnout of 67.55 per cent on Thursday. The remaining 64 seats will go to polls in the next five phases of elections. The counting of votes will take place on May 23.