‘Rahul Gandhi not Hindu’: Union minister hits out at Congress leader over ‘Hindu vs Hindutva’ remark

Hitting out at Rahul Gandhi over his recent remarks on Hinduism and Hindutva, Union Minister A Narayanaswamy has said that Congress leaders are not Hindus and make such remarks whenever elections are held. In remarks over the past few days, Gandhi has repeatedly sought to highlight the difference between Hindu and Hindutva, describing Hindu as tolerant and Hindutva as power-seeking.

“Whenever elections come, he (Rahul Gandhi) only speaks this, but he is not a Hindu,” the minister told reporters on the sidelines of a social empowerment camp organized in Phephna area of ​​Uttar Pradesh’s Ballia district on Wednesday. Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh and some other states are due early next year.

Rejecting Gandhi’s attack on the government over the incidents of lynching, the Union Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment said there is no such thing and the former Congress president does not know what is happening in the country. “Before 2014, the word ‘lynching’ was practically unheard of,” Rahul Gandhi tweeted on Tuesday after two cases of lynchings in Congress-ruled Punjab. #ThankYouModiji.” Two men were beaten to death in separate incidents, and they were both accused of sacrilege by Sikh religious leaders.