As the slanging match between the BJP and the Congress intensified ahead of the five Assembly polls, the BJP on Saturday alleged that India under Congress-rule was "partly Islamic" and that Prime Minister Narendra Modi should be given credit for the removal of the retrograde triple talaq practice in the country.\
Condemning former Congress president Rahul Gandhi for what he called his mixed-up understanding of Hinduism and claiming that he has read Vedas, BJP spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi advised him to read "his own leaders Mahatma Gandhi and Lokmanya Tilak to understand Hinduism".
"To understand Hinduism, Rahul should be reading his Nana's 'Discovery of India'...," Trivedi sought to advise the former Congress president.The BJP leader alleged that there is a deliberate attempt to denigrate Hinduism so that "Hindus do not realise their strength...".Trivedi claimed that during Congess-rule, "India was partly Islamic with triple talaq which is outlawed in most of the Muslim countries being in force in here..."It is Prime Minister Modi who undid triple talaq, he said and accused Congress regimes of going against all progressive court rulings.He said Congress appeasement policy also continued the haj subsidy.
Taking a swipe at "secularists", BJP Spokesperson said they maintain that "terrorism has no religion" but are quick to label lynching incidents in the country to "Hindu atankwad”..Trivedi also sought to ask former J & K Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti whether "Kashmiri Pandit exodus from Kashmir in 1990 was not carried out by lynching and whether it had no religion behind it...?".Accusing Congress of practising communalism, he blamed it for rioting in Maharashtra to suit its designs.