The BJP on Wednesday hit out at Rahul Gandhi for accusing the RSS for the death of 10 people in police firing in Tuticorin, saying the Congress president is hiding his “failures” behind the veil of attacking the organisation and was ignorant of facts .
BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra attacked Rahul at a media briefing for drawing the RSS into the incident and said it underlined his “inexperience and immaturity”, wondering what future the Congress would have with such a president.
“You can inherit presidency of a party but you cannot inherit wisdom and understanding,” he said.
Rahul had claimed that Tamils were being killed as they refused to “bow” to the ideology of the RSS.
In an apparent reference to the anti-copper plant violence at Tuticorin on Tuesday in which 10 people were killed in police firing, Congress leader said he was with the Tamil people.
Patra also alleged, citing media reports, that senior Congress leader P Chidambaram was a director in the company, which was at the centre of the violent protests in the southern state, and asked Congress leader to seek clarification from him.
Patra said in India’s federal structure, law and order is a state subject and the BJP-run Central Government has nothing to do with the police firing, Patra said, asking if Rahul knew that.
He said Congress leader so often errs by blaming the RSS for things happening across the country and the BJP would like to gift him Class VI civics book to learn about India’s federal structure, Constitution and democracy.
What has happened is a matter of sorrow and Rahul is trying to milk a sad incident for political mileage, Patra alleged.
He sought to ask if the Congress president would also blame the RSS for anti-Sikh riots of 1984 and the Emergency imposed in 1975 by the then Indira Gandhi government.
Patra accused the Congress leader of hiding his “failures” behind the veil of attacking the RSS.