Jammu BJP: Azad trying to spread communalism, should apologise
JAMMU: Accusing Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad of trying to “spread” communalism in the country by comparing RSS with the terrorist outfit ISIS, the state unit of BJP on Sunday sought an apology from him.
State BJP spokesman Brig Anil Gupta in a statement issued here on Sunday said Azad was “rejected” by the people of his constituency during the parliamentary elections for his communal outlook and divisive politics. “Instead of mending his ways, Azad has become more venomous and loses no opportunity to spread communalism,” he said.
Gupta said the world acknowledges ISIS as a terrorist organisation which believes in using brute force, uncivilised methods like beheading, medieval ideology, and indulges in unethical practices like rape and loot to suppress the nonbelievers. “RSS on the other hand is a patriotic and philanthropist organisation always in the forefront of national duty at the time of national crisis”, he said.
He said the comparison between the two by Azad is not only irresponsible but “mischievous” and aimed at disturbing communal harmony in the country.
Azad had drawn a parallel between the RSS and ISIS. “So, we oppose organisations like ISIS, the way we oppose RSS. If those among us in Islam too do wrong things, they are no way less than RSS,” Azad had said.