Rahul Gandhi accused BJP of pitting one religion against another
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Dehradun: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Sunday accused the BJP of practising “politics of blood” by pitting one religion against another and one caste against another to come to power at any cost, thus escalating the Congress attack against the Opposition party.
Mr Gandhi also said that the UPA government was trying to bring anti graft ordinances after the Opposition “blocked” the passage of these bills in Parliament.
“It (BJP) practices politics of blood. They don’t see anything but power... power at any cost. They can pit communities and castes against each other and won’t hesitate in spilling blood if they find it necessary to usurp power,” he said.
Mr Gandhi added that the Congress believed in mitigating the pain of people even if it may fall “short” of expectations at times and it alone had the farsighted vision that could set the country on the path of development.
In a frontal attack on the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, he said that the Gujarat CM was speaking about corruption even though he never appointed a Lokayukta in his state and did so only after a judicial order. “There is still one man in Gujarat who does not come under Lokayukta,” he said, in an apparent reference to Mr Modi.
He invoked religious texts and figures like Gita, Koran and Buddha to imply that the Congress represented the idea of a secular India.
( Source : dc )
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