Varun Gandhi is now backpedaling in public, denying making the outrageous and incendiary comments about “cutting heads” of muslims:

Varun Gandhi said he was a “victim of a political conspiracy” and that he never made the comments attributed to him.

Gandhi is alleged to have made the inflammatory remarks whilecampaigning as a candidate of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya JanataParty (BJP).

“I am a victim of political conspiracy. It was not my voice, notmy words,” Mr Gandhi told a press conference in the Indian capital,Delhi.

However, as indscribe already noted, his diatribe was recorded on video by India News. It’s on YouTube:

Here’s another video from IBN news:

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