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Patna: Bihar BJP president Sanjay Jaiswal on Sunday sent a copy of the Bhagavad Gita to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on which he made statements in support of controversial comments in a recent book written by former Union minister Salman Khurshid on his lack of understanding of Hindutva. Accused of. ,
Addressing a press conference here, Jaiswal called Gandhi the country’s most confused leader who was unable to appreciate the basics of Hinduism despite so many publicized visits to temples.
Jaiswal, who was earlier the BJP’s chief whip in the Lok Sabha, said Gandhi’s attempt to separate Hindutva from Hindutva is a reflection on the heights of ignorance and the Congress’s belief in the principle of divide and rule.
Gandhi claims to have read the Upanishads. We want to know if he has read the Italian translation,” Jaiswal said in an indirect tone to AICC president Sonia Gandhi.
A former Congress president, Gandhi had defended party colleague Khurshid, who is in the eye of a storm over a book that the latter tries to draw parallels between Hindutva, an ideology linked to the ideology of the BJP-RSS alliance. word, and radical Islam promoted by terrorist organizations such as ISIS and Boko Haram.
The comparison has been met with disapproval from within Congress. Senior leaders like Ghulam Nabi Azad had said that it was unnecessary to draw such a parallel line.
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