Religion, caste or beliefs matter little to me: Rahul hits back at BJP

July 17, 2018 12:58

As the Bharatiya Janata Party has been kicking up a storm over his reported statement at a meeting of Muslim intellectuals that 'the Congress was a party of Muslims', the Congress president tweeted on Tuesday: 'I stand with the last person in the line. The exploited, marginalised and the persecuted. Their religion, caste or beliefs matter little to me. I seek out those in pain and embrace them. I erase hatred and fear. I love all living beings. I am the Congress.'

On Saturday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had mocked the Congress for being a party which stood only with Muslim men.

'I read in the newspaper that the Congress president had said that the Congress is a party of Muslims, and there has been discussion on this for the past two days,' he said in an apparent reference to Rahul Gandhi's recent meeting with Muslim intellectuals.

'I am not surprised as when Manmohan Singh was the PM, he had said that Muslims have the first right over natural resources,' Modi said.

'But I want to ask the Congress whether it is a party of Muslim men alone,' he added.

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