 "Sangh Parivar playing a dangerous game: PDP")
The opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) today said the "venomous statements" by some BJP and Sangh Parivar leaders were loaded with "communal intrigue" and could have "ruinous" consequences for the country.
"The utterances by some BJP and Sangh Parivar leaders have to be viewed more seriously than mere police cases or violation of the Model Code of Conduct as these can have ruinous consequences," PDP patron Mufti Mohammad Sayeed said.
The statements of BJP's Griraj Kishore and VHP's Praveen Togadia were loaded with "communal intrigue", he told a string of election rallies in central Kashmir's Budgam district.
The Sangh Parivar was playing a "dangerous game" by stoking the "fires of communalism" and pitting people against each other for "political gains", he said.
"Polarisation of people on religious and ethnic lines can have worse consequences than festering sore of sub-continent's partition which led to an unending cycle of human misery and destruction," the PDP patriarch said.
He cautioned the people that "such spiteful utterances can cost the country very heavily".
The PDP patron asked the country's political leadership not to get "trapped in the treacherous divisive discourse".
"I am sure the people of the country are emancipated enough to see through the designs of these divisive elements and won't allow them to succeed.
"The utterances by some BJP and Sangh Parivar leaders have to be viewed more seriously than mere police cases or violation of the Model Code of Conduct as these can have ruinous consequences," PDP patron Mufti Mohammad Sayeed said.
The statements of BJP's Griraj Kishore and VHP's Praveen Togadia were loaded with "communal intrigue", he told a string of election rallies in central Kashmir's Budgam district.
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"The virulent statements of Kishore and Togadia are loaded with communal intrigue which can not only destabilise the country but have the potential of hitting at the very idea of India," Sayeed said.
The Sangh Parivar was playing a "dangerous game" by stoking the "fires of communalism" and pitting people against each other for "political gains", he said.
"Polarisation of people on religious and ethnic lines can have worse consequences than festering sore of sub-continent's partition which led to an unending cycle of human misery and destruction," the PDP patriarch said.
He cautioned the people that "such spiteful utterances can cost the country very heavily".
The PDP patron asked the country's political leadership not to get "trapped in the treacherous divisive discourse".
"I am sure the people of the country are emancipated enough to see through the designs of these divisive elements and won't allow them to succeed.
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