BJP Rajya Sabha MP Sudhanshu Trivedi on Thursday made twin attack on Congress and its president Mallikarjun Kharge, saying that he is only the party's ‘face mask’ and that the ‘real leader’ is the Gandhi family as he also claimed that the Opposition party’s ‘Hindu tilt” was only for their votes and to gain power.
The BJP leader cited senior Congress leader A K Antony’s statement here a day before and alleged that Congress “Hindu tilt” was only for gaining Hindu community’s vote and regaining power.
“Congress acts to be pro-Hindu when out of power and when in power it conspires to portray Hindus as terrorists”, alleged Trivedi. The BJP leader was responding to Antony's comments on his party's foundation day. Addressing an event marking the party’s foundation day here, Antony, a member of the Congress Working Committee, said the Congress should take the majority community along with it to bring down the BJP from power in the 2024 General Election, and that minorities are “not enough in this fight”. The senior Congress leader had further said that majority of the people in India are Hindus, and this majority community should be marshalled in the “fight against Narendra Modi”. Trivedi also quotd report of a committee presided by Antony which after 2014 electoral defeat said that the main reason for their party’s poll reverses was its “tilt towards Muslims” and emphasized on the need to be identified with the Hindu community.
In another attack on the opposition party, the BJP leader said its incumbent president is only a mask while the real powers are being held by the Gandhi family.
“Salman Khurshid said that Mallikarjun Kharge has been elected as Congress chief for work only but the real leader is Gandhi family”, Trivedi pointed out.
“So it becomes clear that Kharge ji is not face but face mask of party and Congress cheats its leaders,” he added.