In a no-holds-barred attack on the BJP at a series of rallies in Churu and Alwar in poll-bound Rajasthan, Rahul alleged its "politics of anger and hate" was fanning communal tensions and damaging the country's secular fabric.
The Congress Vice President also invoked the recent Muzaffarnagar riots in Uttar Pradesh in which 62 people were killed to target the saffron party, saying such communal violence causes terrorism.
"I was seeing my face in their grief. That is why I am against their (BJP's) politics....What do they do. They will put Muzaffarnagar on fire, Gujarat on fire, UP on fire and Kashmir on fire and then you and we will have to douse that. This damages the country," he thundered.
He said that such politics leads to anger and resentment and precious lives are lost in violence and went personal.
Rahul also narrated an incident where an MLA from Punjab visiting his office recently telling him that had they met 20 years ago he would have killed the Congress Vice President due to anger.
Rahul's grandmother Indira Gandhi was killed by her Sikh bodyguards during the militancy days in Punjab in 1984 while his father Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated by LTTE in 1991.
"Anybody can get angry. The anger is deliberately put into people. Politicians do it. Interested party does it. And then the common man, who is hurt has to carry this anger with him. He moves everywhere with this anger. That is why I am against the politics of BJP. Because what they do is that they hurt (people) for political gains."
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