Kansas shooting: Hindus must wear 'tika', 'bindi' for safety, reckons Hindu Samhati Chief

Kolkata: In what may spark a fresh controversy, Hindu Samhati president, Tapan Ghosh on Saturday said that women should wear `bindi` and Hindu men should sport `tilak` on their forehead to avoid incidents like Kansas shooting.

"I am not much interested about `tika` and all but today due to radical Muslims, the atmosphere is volatile. 

To save oneself from this, one must wear `tika` and `bindi`. Although terrorism do not belongs to any particular religion, I want Hindus to be safe and secure," Ghosh told ANI.

Ghosh`s statement comes on the backdrop of Kansas shooting that took place yesterday claiming the life of an Indian engineer and wounding another.

Two Indian engineers- Srinivas Kuchibhotla and Alok Madasani- were shot in a Kansas bar after the shooter hurled racial slurs at them.Kuchibhotla was killed while Madasani was wounded, along with a 24-year-old man who had tried to apprehend the gunman.

The accused, Adam W Purinton, a Navy Veteran has been charged with premeditated first-degree murder and two counts of attempted premeditated first-degree murder.

The possible hate crime has raised new alarms about a climate of hostility toward foreigners in the United States, where President Donald Trump has made clamping down on immigration a central plank of his "America first" agenda.

However, the White House has attempted to downplay notions that there was any correlation between the incident and President Donald Trump`s stance on immigrants.

Noting that the incident was tragic indeed, White House spokesperson Sean Spicer asserted that it was "absurd" to draw parallels between with the President`s rhetoric.

"Obviously, any loss of life is tragic, but I`m not going to get into, like, to suggest that there`s any correlation I think is a bit absurd. So I`m not going to go any further than that," Spicer said.