Another Congress leader Pramod Tiwari echoing similar sentiments said Rahul Gandhi has not made any wrong statement.
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“Organisations and other people of a specific ideology are spreading it to divide individuals”. We are beneath no phantasm that it’s an accident. Lakhs of Sikhs were massacred in Delhi and across India on the second, third and fourth day of Indira Gandhi’s killing in which serious allegations were made against Congress and its leaders. It will shake country’s foundations. “Doob maro, doob maro” This does not behove you. “Their wounds have not healed and you are doing this “dramebaazi” on November 2″, he said addressing a poll rally in Purnea in Seemanchal region which has sizeable Muslim population where last phase of polls are due on November 5. The PM said that it was an ironic situation that Congress, which is facing strong accusations over 84 riots, is lecturing about the growing intolerance.
Indian civilisation promotes tolerance: President Pranab Mukherjee Prime Minister Modi had come out strongly against Congress earlier in the day, asking the party not to forget the 1984 riots – a time when Congress was the party in power. “He has clearly done so to divert attention from rising concerns in country over orchestrated campaigns to create atmosphere of fear”, State Spokesperson Deepak Sharma sated in a press release issued here today. Congress hit back saying like in 2002 post-Godhra violence, Modi has “forgotten Rajdharma” in 2015 too as he was an “endorser of intolerance by his studied silence” over acts of hate and violence.
The meeting comes in the backdrop of writers, filmmakers, scientists, and historians, returning their respective awards as a sign of protest against the rising intolerance in the country, along with the murders of rationalists like Dr Narendra Dabholkar, Govind Pansare, MM Kalburgi, and the gruesome murder of Mohammad Akhlaq, over rumours of consuming beef, in Uttar Pradesh’s Dadri area.
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Last month, comments by the President in more than one speech, stressing on India’s core values of tolerance and diversity, were read by many as a strong message at a time the ruling BJP is facing criticism for not reining in radical elements linked to it.
