Madhya Pradesh: Former UP Governor and veteran Congress chief castigates birthday celebration for its ‘soft-Hindutva’ stand

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BHOPAL: The previous Uttar Pradesh Governor and veteran Congress chief Aziz Qureshi misplaced his mood and vented his anguish towards the birthday celebration for being homely with saffron politics.

Hitting out at his birthday celebration, Qureshi mentioned “Congress leaders are chanting Jai Ganga Maiya, Jai Narmada Maiya, Garva se kaho Hindu hain, but even so removing non secular yatras and putting in idols on the birthday celebration headquarters in Madhya Pradesh. That is shameful,” he mentioned, including that he’s now not terrified of being kicked out of the birthday celebration.

“All political events together with the Congress will have to understand that Muslims aren’t their slaves,” he mentioned and added, “There is a restrict to the tolerance stage of the Muslims. They don’t seem to be cowards.”

MP BJP spokesperson Pankaj Chaturvedi took to platform X to slam the Congress birthday celebration for Quereshi’s provocative remarks. 

“What the veteran Congress chief and ex-governor spoke on Sunday, exposes the actual face of the Congress. It presentations that the Congress birthday celebration believes within the politics of minority appeasement and its leaders, together with Rahul Gandhi and Kamal Nath, flip against the Hindus best all the way through the ballot season. Each, Rahul Gandhi and Kamal Nath will have to come transparent on Qureshi’s provocative statements. If the 2 leaders stay silent on it, it’ll imply their tacit approval of the veteran’s statements,” he mentioned.

The state unit of the Congress alternatively distanced itself from Qureshi’s remarks by way of declaring that it was once the veteran chief’s private opinion.

“It’s his private opinion. The Congress believes in secularism and can’t subscribe to what has been reportedly mentioned by way of him (Qureshi),” state Congress’s media division head KK Mishra mentioned on Tuesday.

The 82-year-old Qureshi has again as soon as a minister within the Congress govt in MP. He has additionally served in gubernatorial positions in UP, Uttarakhand, and Mizoram previously. In 1972, he gained on a Congress price ticket from the Sehore meeting seat. He was once elected to the Lok Sabha as a Congress candidate from the Satna seat of the Vindhya area in 1984.

Only some weeks again, two distinguished politicians, together with Congress chief and non secular guru Acharya Pramod Krishnam and ex-RJD MP Shivanand Tiwari had slammed MP Congress leader and state’s former CM Kamal Nath and his first-time MP son Nakul Nath for reportedly web hosting the Ram and Hanuman Katha of Hindu Rashtra supporter self-styled godman Dhirendra Shastri in Chhindwara district. The 2 leaders from UP and Bihar respectively, had in particular adversarial the welcome of Shastri by way of the father-son baby-kisser duo, who had carried out arti and put tilak at the godman’s brow.  

BHOPAL: The previous Uttar Pradesh Governor and veteran Congress chief Aziz Qureshi misplaced his mood and vented his anguish towards the birthday celebration for being homely with saffron politics.

Hitting out at his birthday celebration, Qureshi mentioned “Congress leaders are chanting Jai Ganga Maiya, Jai Narmada Maiya, Garva se kaho Hindu hain, but even so removing non secular yatras and putting in idols on the birthday celebration headquarters in Madhya Pradesh. That is shameful,” he mentioned, including that he’s now not terrified of being kicked out of the birthday celebration.

“All political events together with the Congress will have to understand that Muslims aren’t their slaves,” he mentioned and added, “There is a restrict to the tolerance stage of the Muslims. They don’t seem to be cowards.”googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

MP BJP spokesperson Pankaj Chaturvedi took to platform X to slam the Congress birthday celebration for Quereshi’s provocative remarks. 

“What the veteran Congress chief and ex-governor spoke on Sunday, exposes the actual face of the Congress. It presentations that the Congress birthday celebration believes within the politics of minority appeasement and its leaders, together with Rahul Gandhi and Kamal Nath, flip against the Hindus best all the way through the ballot season. Each, Rahul Gandhi and Kamal Nath will have to come transparent on Qureshi’s provocative statements. If the 2 leaders stay silent on it, it’ll imply their tacit approval of the veteran’s statements,” he mentioned.

The state unit of the Congress alternatively distanced itself from Qureshi’s remarks by way of declaring that it was once the veteran chief’s private opinion.

“It’s his private opinion. The Congress believes in secularism and can’t subscribe to what has been reportedly mentioned by way of him (Qureshi),” state Congress’s media division head KK Mishra mentioned on Tuesday.

The 82-year-old Qureshi has again as soon as a minister within the Congress govt in MP. He has additionally served in gubernatorial positions in UP, Uttarakhand, and Mizoram previously. In 1972, he gained on a Congress price ticket from the Sehore meeting seat. He was once elected to the Lok Sabha as a Congress candidate from the Satna seat of the Vindhya area in 1984.

Only some weeks again, two distinguished politicians, together with Congress chief and non secular guru Acharya Pramod Krishnam and ex-RJD MP Shivanand Tiwari had slammed MP Congress leader and state’s former CM Kamal Nath and his first-time MP son Nakul Nath for reportedly web hosting the Ram and Hanuman Katha of Hindu Rashtra supporter self-styled godman Dhirendra Shastri in Chhindwara district. The 2 leaders from UP and Bihar respectively, had in particular adversarial the welcome of Shastri by way of the father-son baby-kisser duo, who had carried out arti and put tilak at the godman’s brow.