Janjivan Bureau / New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has hit out at Congress president Rahul Gandhi over his controversial remark he made in Hamburg, Germany.
The BJP slammed Rahul Gandhi for relating terrorism with joblessness and said the Congress leader never leaves an opportunity to present India in the bad light while on the foreign tour.
Addressing a press conference in New Delhi, BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra said Rahul Gandhi has tarnished India’s image.
BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra said Gandhi has tried to give justification for the IS. “There cannot be anything more frightening and worrying,”.
The BJP spokesperson said Gandhi’s submission was that minorities in India would “sell their soul” to IS if jobs are not available for them, and this amounted to “denigrating” the community. “Rahul Gandhi left no opportunity to belittle India and to present it in a bad light. We need explanations from you,” Patra added.
He also said, Rahul Gandhi must apologise for blaming ‘Indian Culture’ for crimes against women. Ironically, his mother was accepted by the same Indian culture that he is denigrating on foreign soil.
Rahul Gandhi at Bucerius Summer School in Hamburg
Addressing a gathering at Bucerius Summer School in Hamburg Wednesday, said that exclusion of a large number of people from the development process could lead to the creation of terrorist groups. Gandhi said that after the US attacked Iraq in 2003, they brought a law that stopped a particular tribe in Iraq from getting jobs in the government and in the army. “It seemed like a very innocuous decision at that time,” he said. “But it resulted in a large number of people joining insurgency that fought the US and caused massive casualties,” he said.
“It did not end there. That insurgency slowly entered empty spaces. It entered the empty space in Iraq and in Syria and then it connected with…a horrific idea called ISIS,” Gandhi said.
