‘They have nothing to do with Hinduism’: Rahul Gandhi slams BJP during France visit

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Rahul Gandhi said during an interaction with students and academics in Paris, adding that ruling party is out to get power at any cost, the PTI reported Sunday. “I have read Gita, I've read a number of the Upanishads, I've read many Hindu books; there is nothing Hindu about what the BJP does, absolutely nothing," the PTI quoted the Congress leader as saying, in response to a question about the rise of “Hindu nationalism" in India. "I have not read anywhere, in no Hindu book, from no learned Hindu person have I ever heard that you should terrorise, harm people who are weaker than you.

So, this idea, this word, Hindu nationalists, this is a wrong word. They're not Hindu nationalists. They have nothing to do with Hinduism.

They are out to get power at any cost, and they will do anything to get power… They want dominance of a few people and that is what they are about. There is nothing Hindu about them," the PTI reported him as saying. It requires “political imagination" to combat the issue of violence against the Dalit and other minority communities “head on" and the Opposition is committed to that fight, Gandhi said when he was asked about the issue atrocities against Dalits in India.

"What the BJP and the RSS are trying to do, the heart of what they're trying to do is trying to stop the expression, the participation of lower castes, other backward castes, tribals and minority communities. And, for me, an India where a Dalit person or a Muslim person, tribal person, upper-caste person, anybody, is being mistreated, is being attacked, is not the India I want," he said reported PTI. "If the Prime Minister tomorrow morning was to decide there would be no chest thumping and no violence in India, it would stop.