“Underneath Congress, India Was once Partly Muslim Country”: BJP On Hindutva Row
A BJP spokesperson mentioned Shivaji’s rule was once additionally related to Hinduism. (Document)
New Delhi:
Maintaining its assault at the Congress over the opposition party’s grievance of Hindutva, the BJP claimed on Saturday that India was once partly a “Muslim country” when it was once in energy as sharia provisions have been then a part of the criminal device and measures have been taken to provide them primacy even over Perfect Court docket judgment.
BJP spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi alleged that the violence in Maharashtra over the “false” information of mosques being focused in Tripura and Congress leaders’ feedback attacking Hindutva have been a part of a conspiracy.
Attacking Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, he questioned if the opposition chief was once coaching his party staff in Maharashtra in defaming Hindutva and using an organised marketing campaign to stole communal discord and violence.
It was once all over his speech by way of video conferencing to Congress staff at a coaching camp within the state that Mr Gandhi had sought to attract a difference between Hinduism and Hindutva, and had attacked the latter.
The BJP has been at the offensive after Congress chief Salman Khurshid when put next Hindutva, a time period related to the RSS-BJP ideology, with terrorist Islamist organisations.
Noting that Shivaji’s rule was once additionally related to Hinduism, Mr Trivedi mentioned leaders like Rahul Gandhi can’t comprehend the concept that and requested him to learn up his personal party stalwarts like Mahatma Gandhi, Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Jawaharlal Nehru.
Nehru, he added, had written that the phrase “Hindu” will also be understood within the broader context of Indian identification and will have to now not be observed narrowly.
“Underneath the Congress rule, India was once partly a Muslim country. I’m pronouncing so as a result of sharia provisions have been a part of the constitutional device,” the BJP chief mentioned, relating to the follow like speedy talaq, now barred, and grant of Haj subsidy, since discontinued.
“Perfect Court docket judgment was once overruled to provide primacy to sharia provisions,” Mr Trivedi mentioned in an obvious connection with the Rajiv Gandhi executive bringing a regulation to override a Perfect Court docket order within the well-known Shah Bano case.
He took a swipe at Congress leaders for giving their “knowledge” on Hinduism and referred to their use of phrases like Hindu Taliban and Hindi terrorism to hit out at them.
Those are the similar individuals who don’t need a proud India to bloom in all its glory, and are looking to forestall its upward push, he claimed.
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