After former BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma’s remarks towards Prophet Muhammad created a stir throughout the Islamic world, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday, whereas highlighting remarks made by the social gathering’s prime leaders prior to now, hit out saying that “fringe is BJP’s core.”
Amid the derogatory comment towards the Prophet row, the BJP has been in a firefighting mode calling the objectionable remarks made by its leaders Nupur Sharma and Naveen Jindal as these made by “fringe elements” and doesn’t adhere with the view of the remainder. Responding to this, Rahul Gandhi took to social media and tweeted, “Fringe is BJP’s core,” with an accompanying image of previous remarks made by BJP chief Amit Shah, Yogi Adityanath, Anurag Thakur and Sadhvi Pragya. In the picture, Gandhi curated information experiences with Shah calling Bangladeshi migrants “termites,” Yogi Adityanath saying that “women not capable of being left free or independent” and Anurag Thakur’s “goli maaro salo ko” allegedly geared toward CAA and NRC protestors in an election rally forward of the Delhi Assembly elections in 2020.
While expelling BJP Delhi media head Naveen Jindal and suspending BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma, India reacted as a number of nations within the Gulf summoned Indian envoys amidst requires boycott of Indian items over the leaders’ remarks.
In a strongly-worded letter directed on the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation’s ‘unwarranted, narrow-minded’ statements, Ministry of External Affairs Arindam Bagchi wrote, “Government of India categorically rejects OIC Secretariat’s unwarranted and narrow-minded comments. The Government of India accords the highest respect to all religions. The offensive tweets and comments denigrating a religious personality were made by certain individuals. They do not, in any manner, reflect the views of the Government of India. Strong action has already been taken against these individuals by relevant bodies.”
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