BJP asks Rahul to sack Diggy for Hindu terror jibe
The BJP on Wednesday asked Congress president Rahul Gandhi to sack his party’s senior leader Digvijay Singh for “denigrating the Hindus” and warned the Congress to “not take the Hindus for granted.”
The ruling party accused the Congress of playing “appeasement card” by blaming Hindus before every polls and said that as 2019 Lok Sabha elections are approaching, the Congress has showed its “core agenda” of appeasement. The party said that Mr Singh, who is a senior leader from poll- bound state of Madhya Pradesh, has started his party’s appeasement policy by making statements where he said “all Hindu terrorists who were caught ( in terror cases) have links with RSS.”
The BJP also accused Mr Gandhi of being obsessed of “falsity, false news and opportunity to divide the society in the name of religion and caste” and “obsessed with the RSS” and blame it for everything.
“We demand Congress leader Digvijay Singh should be sacked from the party. You ( Digvijay Singh) pointed finger at millions of Hindus, denigrated them and called them terrorists. Why do you take Hindus for granted Rahul Gandhi?,” said BJP national spokesperson Sambit Patra as he condemned the statements of the former Congress chief minister of MP.
The BJP said that such kind of statements on “Hindu terror” and “Saffron terror” have been “quite consistent and designed” by the Congress leaders who are “almost always unapologetic.”
Mr Singh, who is also Congress’s coordination committee chief for Madhya Pradesh polls, had last week stirred controversy over his remarks that “all Hindu terrorists who were caught have links with RSS. Nathuram Godse, who assassinated Mahatma Gandhi, was also an RSS functionary. Their ideology spreads hatred, rears violence and from violence, breeds terrorism.”