BJP-RSS 'fake Hindus', indulge in 'brokerage' of religion: Rahul Gandhi

Calling the BJPRSS people fake Hindus Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday alleged that they use religion for their benefit and indulge in its dalali brokerageAddressing the foundation day of the All India Mahila Congress here Gandhi said the ideology of the Congress is completely opposite of the BJPRashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh RSS and only one of the two ideologies can rule the countryAsserting that Goddess Lakshmi stands for the power that helps one attain ones goals and Goddess Durga stands for the power that protects the former Congress chief said while his party had strengthened these powers when in government the ruling BJP dispensation have diminished these powersYe kis prakar ke Hindu hain Ye jhoote Hindu hain Ye Hindu dharm ka prayog karte hain ye dharm ki dalali karte hain magar ye Hindu nahin hain What kind of Hindus are they They are fake Hindus They use Hindu religion they indulge in brokerage of religion but they are not Hindus Gandhi said attacking the BJP and the RSSThe former Congress chief alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi shivers with fear and on Chinas stern look says no one has taken our landAlso Read Every Indian citizen is a Hindu says RSS chief Mohan BhagwatThey Chinese took thousands of kilometers of land but the Prime Minister of India says that no one took the land Whole life is a lie he has run away from the truth There is no power Gandhi said attacking the prime ministerThe BJP lashed out at Gandhi accusing him of being disconnected from the ground after his fake Hindus remark and attack at ModiBJP national general secretary Arun Singh hit out at Gandhi saying that no one takes him seriouslyRahul Gandhi should not make these statements He is totally disconnected from the ground He has no information That is the main problem he told reportersGandhi said as a Congress worker he understands that he can compromise with other ideologies but not with that of the BJP and the RSSHe said it is important to understand the difference between the ideology of the Congress and Mahatma Gandhi and that of V D Savarkar and Nathuram GodseThe BJPRSS people say they are a Hindu party In the last 100200 years if anyone has understood the Hindu religion in the best way and made it his practise it is Mahatma Gandhi We believe in this and so do the BJPRSS people So if Mahatma Gandhi understood the Hindu religion and spent his whole life understanding it then why did the RSS ideology pump three bullets in his chest the Congress leader saidWhy did the RSS ideology pump bullets in a person who is considered an example by the whole world from Nelson Mandela to Martin Luther King and is regarded as the best teacher of Ahimsa or nonviolence which is the foundation of the Hindu religion he saidReferring to Goddess Lakshmi as a power that helps one attain ones goals and Goddess Durga as the power that protects Gandhi rhetorically asked that when Prime Minister Modi announced demonetisation or bring the GST and the farm laws were those powers strengthened Mahila Congress workers responded by saying the powers were diminishedHe also asked whether these powers were boosted by the Congress when it brought in policies such as MNREGA and RTI and One Person One Vote and the crowd shouted back that the powers were strengthenedLater in a tweet in Hindi Gandhi said Lakshmis power employment Durgas power fearlessness Saraswatis power knowledge The BJP is busy in snatching these powers from the peopleOn the Mahila Congress Foundation Day it is our resolve that we will fight to ensure that these powers reach the people he saidIn his address at the event Gandhi attacked the BJP saying they call themselves a Hindu party and in the whole country they attack Lakshmi and DurgaWherever they go they kill Lakshmi or Durga and then say we are Hindus Gandhi allegedThe former Congress chief also alleged that the organisation of the RSS crushes women power while the Congress organisation gives it a platformNarendra Modi and the RSS did not make a woman prime minister the Congress did So for us be it a woman man Dalit adivasi he or she may be from Bengal Haryana or Punjab they are all one We only see one thing whether the person gets scared or not if he or she does not get scared they are a Congressi if they get scared then we have to make them into a Congressi he saidGandhi alleged that the Modi government has taken the power of Goddess Durga and Goddess Lakshmi from the hands of farmers labourers and the poor and has given it to threefour peopleToday in India there are 1015 people who have the power of Durga and Lakshmi they are Modi ji s friends Ask the poor go to the houses of farmers ask if they have money to celebrate Diwali they will say they dont have it he saidThe power of Goddess Durga that was there in the hands of the people and one could say anything and criticise Congress chief ministers and prime ministers has now been taken away Gandhi saidThe Congress leader alleged that terms are dictated by the RSSBJP to universities and he cannot even visit themYou have to tell the country that Narendra Modi has attacked the power that we call Lakshmi and the power that we call Durga he told Mahila Congress workers and leadersDont fight by deploying hatred hate is not our tool love is our tool the former Congress chief assertedThe day we show hatred we would have gotten scared and would not be Congress persons he addedThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever