The Congress on Thursday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi has ‘skirted the real issue’ in the wake of Dadri lynching incident while appealing to Hindus and Muslims to work together to fight poverty. It also accused the Prime Minister of wearing different ‘masks’ and giving ‘tacit approval’ to communalise the situation in the wake of Dadri lynching incident.
“The Prime Minister has skirted the real issue. He has appealed to Hindus and Muslims to fight against poverty... By this statement, he has not condemned Dadri incident and those in BJP playing the communal card on the issue,” party spokesperson RPN Singh said.
Asked about his reaction on the Prime Minister’s statement, Singh said, “why can’t the PM ask Hindus and Muslims to live in peace” and deplore those MlAs, MPs, party office bearers and Union Ministers who continue to spread communal venom.
In his first comments amid communal overtones in the wake of Dadri lynching incident, Modi invoked President Pranab Mukherjee, saying the countrymen should follow his message given on Wednesday on preserving the core civilisational values of diversity, tolerance and plurality.
“The way Ministers in the Modi Government are raising the communal temperature in the wake of the Dadri incident and still the Prime Minister is silent suggests his tacit admission to their actions" another party spokesperson Shobha Oza said.
Hitting back at Modi for calling JD(U)-RJD-Congress as 'mahaswarth bandhan" (alliance of big opportunism), she said BJP ally Ram Vilas Paswan had resigned from Vajpayee Cabinet in the aftermath of the Gujarat communal riots while Upendra Kushwaha was a JD(U) MP.