Majumdar’s comment came as Rahul Gandhi said “I am a Hindu but not a Hindutvavadi” during a rally.
Kolkata: Bhartiya Janta Party west Bengal unit president Sukanta Majumdar slammed Rahul Gandhi and said that Gandhi only calls himself Hindu when elections are to be held.
“It is our achievement that he is calling himself a Hindu. However, he acknowledges himself as a Hindu only during elections. He will wear janaeu during elections. He will visit temples and go for tourism during the elections. But when elections are not there, then he goes to beaches and has nothing to do with being a Hindu,” Majumdar told ANI on Sunday.
“The people who claim themselves as Hindus are no less than the Ramayana’s Ravana who came dressed in bhagwa clothes as an imposter to kidnap Sita,” Majumdar added.
Majumdar’s comment came as Rahul Gandhi said “I am a Hindu but not a Hindutvavadi” during a rally on Sunday in Jaipur in Rajasthan, where assembly elections are scheduled to be held in 2022.
Congress has held a rally at Jaipur on December 12. While Addressing the public at the rally, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi attacked the Centre and said that he is a Hindu and not Hindutvadi. He says that there is a collision between two words.
Addressing the ‘Mehngai Hatao Maha Rally’ in Jaipur, Rahul Gandhi said, “What is the battle before the country today? There is a collision of two words in the politics of the country today. One word Hindu and the other word Hindutva. This is not the same thing. There are two different words and have different meanings. I am a Hindu and not a Hindutvadi. The difference between Hindu and Hindutvadi is that Hindu searches for truth, it is called satyagraha but Hindutvadi searches for power (satta) and it is called as Sattagraha.”
Targetting the Modi government, Gandhi said, “Today one percent of the population of India has 33 percent wealth in their hands. 10 percent of the population has 65 percent of the money in their hands. And the poorest 50 percent of the population has only 6 percent of the money in their hands.”
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