"Under Congress, India Was Partially Muslim Nation": BJP On Hindutva Row
NDTV
BJP has been on the offensive after Congress's Salman Khurshid compared Hindutva, a term associated with the RSS-BJP ideology, with terrorist organisations.
Keeping up its attack on the Congress over the opposition party's criticism of Hindutva, the BJP claimed on Saturday that India was partially a "Muslim nation" when it was in power as sharia provisions were then part of the legal system and measures were taken to give them primacy even over Supreme Court judgment.
BJP spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi alleged that the violence in Maharashtra over the "false" news of mosques being targeted in Tripura and Congress leaders' comments attacking Hindutva were part of a conspiracy.
Attacking Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, he wondered if the opposition leader was training his party workers in Maharashtra in defaming Hindutva and driving an organised campaign to stole communal discord and violence.
It was during his speech via video conferencing to Congress workers at a training camp in the state that Mr Gandhi had sought to draw a distinction between Hinduism and Hindutva, and had attacked the latter.
