Janjivan Bureau
New Delhi: On ‘Hindu terror’ remark the Congress hit back at Home Minister Rajnath Singh,saying that Home Minister Rajnath Singh is quoting the ex-UPA home minister Sushil Kumar Shinde’s comment out of context and also alleged that the BJP Government was polarising the nation in the name of religion.
Ghulam Nabi Azad said, “Shinde ji’s remark on ‘Hindu Terror’ being quoted out of context. Also, he said it at party forum not Parliament.”
While giving a statement in Lok Sabha over the Gurdaspur attack that took place on Monday, Home Minister Rajnath Singh trained guns at the previous Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) on its policy on terrorism.
“I would like to ask everyone to remember how a new term of Hindu terror was invented to divert the attention a few years back. Even Pakistan applauded them. The term ‘Hindu terrorists’ coined by previous UPA government has weakened India’s stand on terrorism,” he had said.Congress Party has always been against terrorism, be it Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, north eastern states or the states sharing borders with our neighbours. We have seen our sitting Prime Minister Smt. Indira Gandhi martyred to terrorism. We have seen the death of Ex-Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi at the hands of terrorists. We have seen many leaders, MLAs, MPs, etc losing their lives to extremism and terrorism. But BJP does not need to lecture us, he added.
