Via PTI
NEW DELHI: The BJP on Monday accused Congress chief Rahul Gandhi of wondering the life of Lord Ram and alleged that “petty politics” of the Congress chief and Maharashtra Leader Minister Uddhav Thackeray and their “inciting” remarks have performed a job within the contemporary violence in different states all through Ram Navami processions.
Chatting with journalists, BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra known as Gandhi a “chunavi Hindu” (Hindu for electoral functions), and alleged that he pretends to be a Hindu.
The BJP was once reacting to a contemporary public cope with of Gandhi all through which he quoted a BJP chief, whom he didn’t title, as announcing that he didn’t imagine in reincarnation.
Then he requested him, Gandhi mentioned, if he does now not imagine in reincarnation, then how can he imagine in Ram.
Right through the speech, Gandhi additionally spoke about his dialog with a Dalit adolescence who had attempted to dedicate suicide after violence towards Dalits in Una in Gujarat.
Mentioning the dialog, he mentioned, “If my sister have been assaulted I’d have stabbed and killed her tormentor ahead of loss of life,” he added.
Patra seized at the former Congress president’s remarks to hit out at him. This presentations that Gandhi has religion neither within the Charter nor within the judiciary, he added.
With Gandhi claiming that he had no real interest in energy regardless of being born in its midst, the BJP spokesperson mentioned those remarks aimed toward “frightening” folks and “wondering” Ram’s life underline his desperation.
The Gandhi circle of relatives can pass to any extent to get energy, he alleged. “The best way some leaders are wondering the life of Lord Ram and are inciting folks…This will have to now not have came about. Rahul Gandhi appears to be not able to tolerate that individuals in India think about Lord Ram. This presentations the nature of the Congress,” he mentioned.
Noting that Gandhi was once described by way of his birthday party as a “janeu-dhari Hindu”, person who wears sacred thread, Patra mentioned that by way of “attacking” Ram’s life, the Congress chief had proven himself to be anyone who pretends to be a Hindu for electoral advantages.
The UPA executive in a sworn statement to the Perfect Court docket had mentioned that there was once no evidence of Ram’s life, he mentioned, including that Rahul Gandhi is treading at the similar trail as his mom and Congress president Sonia Gandhi.
This ended in folks completing off the life of the Congress in elections, and the opposition birthday party shall be taught a lesson once more, he mentioned.
On this context, Patra additionally condemned Thackeray for his jibe on the BJP that what factor the ruling birthday party would have raised if Lord Ram was once now not born.
Opposition leaders can in finding 1000’s of causes to assault the BJP however that is “petty politics”, he mentioned.
Regarding the violence in various states all through Ram Navami processions, he mentioned it’s herbal that such incidents will occur when senior leaders like Gandhi and Thackeray make such remarks because of their “appeasement” politics.
Leader ministers of opposition-ruled states like Ashok Gehlot in Rajasthan have blamed right-wing teams for violence and feature hit out on the BJP.