State Congress has leveled serious allegation against that the BJP that it is banking on communalism to influence the local body elections.
MP Congress Committee president Arun Yadav in a statement here on Sunday said, “In order to influence the ensuing local body elections the BJP is flaring up the communalism in the state.”
Yadav terming the communal frenzy in Ratlam on Saturday as unfortunate appealed the people of the state to maintain peace and communal harmony. “The BJP legislators and its organizational office bearers on the directives of party leadership raised the issue of love Jihad just before the onset of Navratri in a well planned way. The BJP MlAs are sowing seeds of poison through their acts and statements against the Muslims youths to follow the party policy to destabilize the peaceful atmosphere of the state in the festival season,” Yadav added.
He said that the intelligence agencies are also aware of the ill intents of the BJP but they are helpless due to political reasons. The aim of the BJP behind all this is to polarize votes in the local body elections because it has become aware of its fate by the results of the by-elections of assembly and parliament in various parts of the country.