New Delhi | Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on Friday created controversy when he compared Prime Minister Narendra Modi with controversial Pakistani leader Zia-ul-Haq.
Attacking PM Modi led central government, the Congress general secertary said that the ruling party in India is promoting the religious extremism in the country.
“A similar kind of religious extremism is being promoted under Prime Minister Modi’s governance in India as done by former Pakistani dictator Zia-ul-Haq that led to a spurt in neighbouring country Pakistan,” Singh said while pointing out that extremism leads to terrorism.
Speaking to media, the former Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh said,”Extremism leads to terrorism. Religious extremism as promoted by Zia-ul-Haq in Pakistan led to a spurt in terrorism there. There is religious extremism being promoted by ruling government in India, the so-called Hindutva, this is a similar dangerous trend.”
“In Pakistan, Zia-ul-Haq started giving importance to bodies like Jamaat-E-Islami. Ever since he started supporting bodies like Taliban, Pakistan has more terror activities taking place than India. There are more bomb blast in Pakistan, who are the people behind this? They are not foreigners but Pakistanis themselves, who’s dying? Muslims themselves, no one else,” Singh said while citing example about the former Pakistani President Zia-ul-Haq.
“What’s happening in Afghanistan? The thing is it’s a fight of ideologies, wherever such intolerance and such ideologies exist, there will be terrorism and such intolerant ideologies gives birth to terrorism, religious intolerance give way to terrorism,” Singh said.
Earlier while delievering a lecture on ‘Threats Faced by Indian Democracy and Secularism’ Tharoor said “If they (BJP) win a repeat in the Lok Sabha our democratic constitution as we understand it will not survive as they will have all the elements they need to tear apart the constitution of India and write a new one”. “The only thing that had stood in its way is a two-third majority in the Rajya Sabha, However they already have more than 20 states under their belt, so a Rajya Sabha majority looks near,” added Tharoor.
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