BJP’s star campaigners – J.P. Nadda, Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, Adityanath – have continued to amplify misleading claims around the Congress manifesto and former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s 2006 speech.
New Delhi: Despite a notice by the Election Commission of India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s openly communal remarks accusing the Congress of redistributing wealth to Muslims are being echoed by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s other star campaigners including party president J.P. Nadda, Union home minister Amit Shah and defence minister Rajnath Singh.
The Congress manifesto does not anywhere mention redistributing wealth in the country, let along among any community. Neither does it talk specifically about Muslims while allocating jobs, reservations, implementation of the Sachar Committee report, or bringing back triple talaq or beef. However, BJP’s star campaigners have continued to amplify misleading claims from the document, the Election Commission’s notice notwithstanding.
In a video address on Friday, Nadda echoed Modi’s remarks and accused the Congress of wanting to “snatch the rights of SC,ST and OBC” and give them to Muslims.
“Congress and the INDI alliance’s hidden agenda is to snatch the rights of the SC,ST and OBC and give them to Muslims. Congress says that the Muslims have the first right to the country’s resources. But prime minister Modi says that the first right to resources is of the poor of this country,” he said.
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