Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Sunday termed Congress' support to students indulging in alleged 'anti-national' slogans as ideological hollowness.
Speaking at the concluding session of the two-day national Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha convention here, he defined the Leftist as the one who believes in dividing and ruling the country through violence.
Taking potshots at the Leftists, he said that a small group out of them was 'Jihadi' while the bigger group was 'Maoist'.
Referring to JNU Student's Union president Kanhaiya Kumar's speech at the university campus after being released from jail earlier last week, the Finance Minister said that it was a fight of ideologies in which the BJP has emerged victorious.
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