Cong playing dangerous game, creating partition-like situation: BJP on Rahul's reported remarks

In a sharp attack on the Congress, the BJP today said the opposition party was trying to create a "partition-like situation" in the country, and it would be solely responsible if any disharmony plays out between now and 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

Senior BJP leader and Union minister Nirmala Sitharaman also asked Congress chief Rahul Gandhi to clarify his remarks reported in a Urdu daily that his party was a Muslim party and that he was on a course-correction.

"This needs to be clarified, probably he wants to say that to call himself a Janeu-dhari (a Hindu who wears the sacred thread) was wrong, probably he wants to say now he is Muslim dhari," she said.

"You can't be a Janeu-dhari at one point... a Muslim-dhari at another... This is playing with the people's trust."
Though the Congress has termed the report as a rumour, Sitharaman said, "The Congress would be solely responsible if any disharmony plays out between now and 2019 elections."
"The Congress party's professing to minority appeasement has now reached a crescendo," she said