The BJP on Monday said Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi should apologise for defaming Hindus \u201cglobally\u201d and cited a telegram sourced from Wikileaks to back its demand.<\/p>\n
The BJP\u2019s renewed attack on the Congress comes a day after a special anti-terror court acquitted rightwing activist Swami Aseemanand and four others in the 2007 Mecca Masjid blast case in Hyderabad.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf Congress considers India to be its own, then Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi must apologise to the whole country for defaming the great Hindu religion by trying to prove that there was something called \u2018saffron terror\u2019,\u201d BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra said at a press conference.<\/p>\n
He showed a telegram sourced from Wikileaks quoting a conversation during the former Congress-led UPA government between then US ambassador and Rahul Gandhi.<\/p>\n
According to the transcript of the conversation, Rahul Gandhi said saffron terror was a bigger threat than the Lashkar-e-Taiba.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis shows the mindset of Rahul Gandhi towards Hindus. His party has always take Hindus for granted,\u201d Patra said.<\/p>\n
Yesterday, Patra said people would teach the Congress a lesson in the Karnataka Assembly polls as they had in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections when it was reduced to 44 seats.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor its appeasement politics, the Congress targeted and defamed Hindus and the country for merely some votes. That conspiracy has been exposed. The Congress has been exposed like never before,\u201d he had said after the verdict came in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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