Congress must apologise for defaming Hindu religion says Amit Shah
BJP president Amit Shah today lashed out at Congress, accusing it of insulting the Hindu religion across the globe in the name of “saffron terrorism” and demanded that the party apologise to the nation.
“The Congress should apologise for the term`saffron terrorism’. The party must apologise for defaming Hindu culture, insulting Hindus,” he said at a public meeting in the Gandhi family’s home turf.
Shah’s visit to Rae Bareli comes days after former Congress president Sonia Gandhi visited her Lok Sabha constituency, her first trip there in nearly two years.
“The grand old party will never apologise to the Hindu community because of its vote bank politics,” Shah said, accusing Congress of using religion as a political tool.
Referring to the acquittal of preacher Swami Aseemanand in the Mecca Masjid blast case earlier this week, he sought to target the Congress over the party’s attempts to “defame” Hindus in terror cases.
“Charges were levelled during the Congress government against Aseemanandji and others but they have been acquitted by the court,” he said.
“I want to ask Rahul ‘baba’, your home minister Sushil Kumar Shinde, P Chidambaram, Digvijay Singh and all had tried to defame Hindu culture by talking about saffron terrorism… you need to apologise before the entire country,” Shah added.
“Rahulji decide on the limit of how low one can stoop in politics,” he said, accusing him to trying to defame an ancient culture worldwide. He said the Congress leaders were yet to apologise days after the court verdict.
“Don’t think that you can go scot free,” he said. “If anyone is framed, he will come out free as truth cannot be kept hidden. Not even you, ‘Rahul baba’, can do this,” he added.
Taking his party’s fight against Congress in the Gandhi family pocket borough, Shah said his Bharatiya Janata Party will rid Sonia Gandhi’s constituency of ‘parivarvad’ (dynastic politics) and take it on to the path of `vikaswad’ or development.
