Congress in Kerala apologises to Christians over controversial social media post
Congress in Kerala on Monday tendered an apology to the Christian community a day after one of its social media posts taking a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his recent meeting with Pope Francis triggered a political row in the state. The party also withdrew the post from its official X handle.
In a fresh post on its X handle, the state unit of the grand old party said it tendered an unconditional apology to the Christian faithful if its earlier post had caused any «emotional or psychological distress» to them.
In the explanatory post, the party further said the people in the state clearly know that it is not the tradition of the Indian National Congress to insult and disparage any religion, religious priests or idols.
The party said no Congress worker would even entertain the remotest thought of insulting the Pope, whom Christians around the world consider as God-like.
However, the party is not hesitant to mock PM Narendra Modi, who insults the faithful of the country by calling himself God, the post said.
In that way, people would understand the communal minds of BJP state chief K Surendran and others to portray the Congress' attempt to mock Modi's «shameless political games» as an insult to the Pope, it said.
Hitting out at Surendran and other BJP leaders who triggered a row over the issue, the Congress further said their attempt was to «downgrade» the Christians as a group of people who have no self-respect and are the ones who spread communal venom as soon as they inject it.
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