BJP on Tuesday quoted Wikileaks telegram which purportedly quoted Congress president Rahul Gandhi referring to the threats from ‘Hindu radicalism’ and demanded apology from him and his mother Sonia Gandhi for allegedly defaming Hindus worldwide.
“If Congress considers India to be its own, then Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi must apologise to the whole country for defaming the great Hindu religion by trying to prove that there was something called ‘saffron terror’,” BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra said at a press conference.
The BJP attacked Congress a day after a special anti-terror court acquitted rightwing activist Swami Aseemanand and four others in the 2007 Mecca Masjid blast case in Hyderabad.
Patra said people’s court is the biggest court and Karnataka would teach Congress a lesson for its “appeasement politics”.
He showed a telegram sourced from Wikileaks quoting a conversation during the former Congress-led UPA government between then US ambassador and Rahul Gandhi.
According to the transcript of the conversation, Rahul Gandhi said Hindu radicalism and saffron terror was a bigger threat than the lashkar-e-Taiba. Patra said the comments from the Congress leader were serious as they came a year after Mumbai terror attack by terror outfit leT in 2008.
“This shows the mindset of Rahul towards Hindus. His party has always take Hindus for granted,” Patra said.