Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], June 3 (ANI): Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya on Friday slammed Congress chief Rahul Gandhi for his remarks within the US and demanded that he tender an apology.
Hitting out at Rahul for labelling the Muslim League, the Congress’s ally in Kerala, as a secular get together throughout an interplay with journalists in Washington DC on Friday, Keshav Prasad Maurya stated, “2024 (Lok Sabha) elections aren’t too distant and he (Rahul) ought to say no matter he needs to among the many folks. Why he’s insulting the nation on overseas soil? He should apologise.”
Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, who’s on his three-city go to to the USA, sparked a row after he stated that Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) in Kerala is totally a “secular get together”. The comment invited criticism from the BJP.
Requested concerning the Congress’s alliance with Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) in Kerala, Rahul claimed stated there’s nothing non-secular concerning the Muslim League.
Rahul Gandhi represented Wayanad within the Lok Sabha earlier than being disqualified from Parliament. following his conviction in a prison defamation case.
Drawing parallels between IUML and the founding father of Pakistan, Mohammad Ali Jinnah’s get together, Union minister Kiren Rijiju lashed out at Rahul stating that it was “extraordinarily unlucky” that some folks within the nation “nonetheless contemplate the Muslim League as secular.”
Rijiju questioned how Jinnah’s Muslim League, which was behind the nation’s partition on non secular strains, was a secular get together.
Having drawn the BJP’s ire over Rahul’s comment, the Congress made a distinction between Jinnah’s Muslim League and its ally in Kerala.
Congress chief Pawan Khera has supported Rahul’s assertion, claiming that the BJP had solid an alliance with the Muslim League in Nagpur.
“I feel right this moment’s BJP of PM Modi and HM Amit Shah doesn’t have any information of Indian politics. They could have information of Pakistan’s politics however not India’s…Syama Prasad Mookerjee had solid an alliance with Jinnah’s Muslim League. This (IUML) is the Muslim League with which BJP solid an alliance in Nagpur,” Khera stated.
Congress chief Ramesh Chennithala additionally backed Rahul’s declare concerning the Muslim League as “100 per cent right”. (ANI)
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