During the discussion, Rao said, “Congress party is deliberately creating a situation of another Parliament logjam”.
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“He should act. As Prime Minister of India, he should not be thinking or acting like a BJP leader or a RSS pracharak”.
Meanwhile, BJP and Congress had on Monday locked horns over the issue of intolerance in the society, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi saying the Congress president had no moral right to lecture the NDA on tolerance and it should “hang its head in shame” for the 1984 anti-Sikh riots where thousands were massacred. “There were serious charges against the Congress party and Congress leaders…”, said Modi.
After the meeting with the President, Rahul questioned the government’s attitude towards those protesting against religious intolerance. When Congress was in the margins from 1998-2004, during the Vajpayee regime, Sonia carried out three street shows, one for the “tea party” with Jayalalithaa, that ended in disaster while trying to prop up an alternative regime. Khan, who turned 50 on Monday said, “there is intolerance, there is extreme intolerance… there is, I think… there is growing intolerance”. “He (Modi) should look into his own backyard before accusing others”, said Congress spokesman Anand Sharma said.
“Chargesheets have been filed against then Gujarat home minister Amit Shah for his involvement in the riots and another minister of the then Gujarat government Maya Kodnani was arrested for her involvement in the riots”, he said.
Banging down the statements of Congress PM Modi expressed his gratitude and appreciation to Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and RJD chief Lalu Prasad for allowing 40 assembly seats which are definitely going to be won by the BJP at any cost. Today, on the same day, Congress party is giving lecture on the issue of tolerance.
Sonia together with Rahul and different senior Congress leaders marched from Vijay Chowk to Rashtrapati Bhavan after providing floral tributes to the statue of Mahatma Gandhi at Parliament complicated.
The government had limited the number of protesters to 125 ahead of the “tolerance” march which the Congress dubbed as a blatant attempt to curb freedom and democracy.
Taking political hostilities to the next level, more than 100 senior Congress leaders, including chief ministers and former chief ministers, marched to Rashtrapati Bhavan to express their concern over “growing atmosphere of fear” in the country.
Jaitley earlier in the day said India has never been “intolerant”.
Union finance minister Arun Jaitley was the first to get off the block as he told the media: “Where is intolerance?”
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Stating that the lynching of a Muslim man in Uttar Pradesh on suspicion that he ate beef was “the most deplorable incident”, he said it took place in a Samajwadi Party-ruled state.
