Congress's Salman Khurshid's "Hindutva" Remark In Book Sparks Controversy
NDTV
Ahead of next year's elections in five states, the BJP has also targeted the Congress, accusing it of playing "communal politics" to get Muslim votes.
Senior Congress leader Salman Khurshid had landed in controversy over his new book on Ayodhya. A Delhi-based lawyer has filed a complaint against him, accusing the 68-year-old of comparing "Hindutva" with radical Islamic terror groups. Ahead of next year's elections in five states, the BJP has also targeted the Congress, accusing it of playing "communal politics" to get Muslim votes. The BJP has also demanded that Salman Khurshid be sacked from the Congress and that Congress chief Sonia Gandhi explain the statement "if she respects Hindus". Congress's Salman Khurshid in his new book writes that Hindutva is similar to the jihadist Islamist groups like ISIS and Biko Haram.What else can we expect from someone whose party coined the term Saffron terror just to draw equivalence with Islamic jihad, to get Muslim votes? pic.twitter.com/3OikNQJ3qt
A passage in Mr Khurshid's new book, ''Sunrise Over Ayodhya: Nationhood in Our Times'', read: "Sanatan Dharma and classical Hinduism known to sages and saints were being pushed aside by a robust version of Hindutva, by all standards a political version similar to the jihadist Islam of groups like ISIS and Boko Haram of recent years".
Highlighting the paragraph, Amit Malviya, the BJP's IT cell chief, tweeted: "Congress's Salman Khurshid in his new book writes that Hindutva is similar to the jihadist Islamist groups like ISIS and Biko Haram. What else can we expect from someone whose party coined the term Saffron terror just to draw equivalence with Islamic jihad, to get Muslim votes?"