Som had visited Bishahra village and invoked the Muzaffarnagar riots while talking to a crowd. Khattar had in an interview said Muslims can continue to live in India, but they will have to give up eating beef. Modi, who has been criticised for not doing enough to rein in party leaders, conveyed his anger over the controversy sparked by the comments of these leaders. The top party brass has swung into action after Mr. Shah told them that the lynching of a man in Dadri over rumours that he had eaten and stored beef was essentially a failure of the State government in maintaining law and order and BJP had nothing to do with it. Such controversies in a way derail the development agenda of the party as well as the Modi government,” the source said. “The party president has warned them against making such statements. Shah has pulled up Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar, Union Minister Mahesh Sharma, MP Sakshi Maharaj and MLA Sangeet Som, warning them against making such comments that threaten to derail the ’development agenda of the Modi government’, a party source said. With the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) under fire over controversial remarks of its leaders on Dadri and beef row, party chief Amit Shah has cracked the whip and warned them against making such remarks after Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed “extreme displeasure”. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had expressed "extreme displeasure" over the remarks of Khattar, Mahesh Sharma, Sakshi Maharaj and Sangeet Som.
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