Cong distances itself from Khurshid's blood stains remark

The Congress today distanced itself from senior party leader Salman Khurshid's remarks that the party had Muslims' blood stains on its hands.

"The Congress disagrees with his statement...It is his personal view, not the party's," Congress spokesperson P L Punia said.

Speaking at an event at Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) on Sunday, Khurshid said there were Muslims' blood stains on the Congress hands.

Pushed to the wall with a point blank query from an Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) student at a programme as to how the Congress will wash off the blood stains of Muslims on its hands, he said, "It is a political question. There is blood on our hands. I am also a part of the Congress so let me say it, we have blood on our hands. Is this why you are trying to tell us that if someone attacks you, we must not come forward to protect you?"