Congress MP Shashi Tharoor (File photo)

KOLKATA: A city court issued an arrest warrant against Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Tuesday over his alleged remark that the BJP, if voted to power again, would rewrite the Constitution and pave the way for creation of a “Hindu Pakistan”.

Tharoor’s alleged statement had sparked off a controversy with the ruling BJP demanding an apology from the Thiruvananthapuram MP .

Chief metropolitan magistrate Dipanjan Sen issued a bailable warrant against the MP on a petition filed by lawyer Sumit Chowdhury claiming that the statement promoted disharmony am-ong people. Chowdhury also claimed that Tharoor was indulging in a deliberate act to promote enmity between different groups of people on religious grounds.

The matter has been scheduled for hearing again on September 24.

