The ruling BJP today again attacked Rahul Gandhi over his reported remark that the Congress is "a Muslim party" and said his comment showed that the opposition party is "communal" and "divisive".
Addressing a press conference at the BJP office in New Delhi, senior BJP leader Prakash Javadekar asked Gandhi to come out and clarify his remark. He also said that the "divisive" politics of the Congress party damaged the country.
The BJP has asked Gandhi to break his "silence" on the matter after he reportedly told an Urdu daily that the Congress is a Muslim party.
Union minister Ravi Shanker Prasad said yesterday that Gandhi became a "janeudhari" and flaunted his Brahmin lineage when he went to Gujarat and Karnataka for election campaigns. After the polls, he is patronising Muslims, he said.
Javadekar said: "Gandhi' remarks show that Congress is a communal party. Its appeasement politics has damaged the country. History of partition is testimony to this."
The Congress stands exposed in front of people, Javadekar asserted. He questioned "Why Rahul Gandhi is silent about it, why does not he come out in open."
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