Hisar: Rahul, the Congress leader, sparked a major political controversy on Saturday by comparing the inauguration of the Ram Temple on January 22 to a “naach-gaana” (song and dance) event. The ruling BJP attacked Rahul as a “habitual offender of Hindu sentiments and anti-Hindu.”
Rahul Gandhi’s statement on Ram Mandir sparked a political row
“Their three generations—Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru in 1959, Indira Gandhi in 1968, and later PM Manmohan Singh and Rahul Gandhi in 2005—went to the shrine of Babur in Afghanistan and paid their respects. Three insults against the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya and three salutations to Babur. This merely exposes Rahul Gandhi’s anti-Hindu perspective,” BJP spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi stated today in response to a viral 27-second video clip in which Rahul accused the government of converting the Ram Mandir inauguration into a naach-gaana event.
In the video of his Hisar rally on Friday, Gandhi is heard stating: “You opened the temple and told the President since you are a tribal, you cannot come inside, you are not allowed… They then called upon Adani, Ambani, and Amitabh Bachchan, but they forbade the entrance of laborers. Did you spot a worker? A farmer? Song and dance performance was taking place.
Gandhi claimed that because the entire nation was watching, Awadhesh Singh, the candidate for the Samjidwadi Party, beat the BJP in Ayodhya.
According to Sudhanshu Trivedi, “Rahul heaped three insults on the Ram Temple, first by declining to attend the inauguration ceremony even though he was invited; second, by declaring that no members of Congress would be present; and third, by referring to the occasion as a “naach-gaana event.”
“Did Rahul overlook the 400 laborers who were invited to the inauguration of the Ram Mandir being showered with petals?” enquired of the BJP spokesperson.
Rahul’s remarks were deemed “disgraceful” by party spokesman Ravi Shankar Prasad, former Uttarakhand chief minister Tirath Singh Rawat, and chief minister of Madhya Pradesh Mohan Yadav.
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