BJP minister describes Rahul Gandhi as "merchant of hate" after his comments on lynching

Attacking Congress president Rahul Gandhi for his "brutal new India" comments against the Modi government, a senior BJP minister today called him a "merchant of hate" and accused him of dividing the society for electoral gains.

Gandhi, in a tweet, on the lynching incident in Rajasthan last week where a Muslim man was attacked after being accused of cow smuggling had said: "...This is Modi's brutal 'New India' where humanity is replaced with hatred and people are crushed and left to die,"