BENGALURU: Five-time BJP MP from Uttara Kannada constituency Anantkumar Hegde has been booked by the Karnataka police for making a deliberate statement to the media that unless Islam is eliminated, terrorism cannot be rooted out.

Hegde, who hails from the Sangh Parivar stronghold of Karnataka's coast and is a staunch member of the RSS, told media members at his hometown Sirsi on Sunday: "Please record and telecast my words exactly as I say it. I will stand by them and not take them b ..