Khurshid 'blood on hand' remark: BJP says Cong has history of stoking riots

Distancing itself from Salman Khurshid's remark that the party's hands were stained with blood, the Congress said it disagreed with it 'in toto'

Congress leader Salman Khurshid's statement that his party had stains of blood on its hands was an "acknowledgement" of its history of "engineering communal riots", said the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday. Further, the BJP accused the Congress of continuing to practise the same politics of creating division and tensions to garner votes and said Khurshid's statement, where he is accepting his party's role in past riots, exposes the truth behind party president Rahul Gandhi's 'Save the Constitution' campaign. The Congress distanced itself from Khurshid's remark and said it disagreed with it "in toto". Further, it reminded its leaders