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Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge has alleged that the Bharatiya Janata Party was a “party of terrorists”, as he hit back at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his recent remarks that the grand old party is being run by a “gang of urban Naxals”.
He also accused those in the saffron party of “lynching and beating” people, and committing atrocities against SC/STs.
“He (Modi) has always been saying it, even now he is saying it. Till now he was silent, after getting a bit of life now, he is saying urban Naxal. He calls intellectual and progressive people urban Naxal, he calls Congress too (as urban Naxals), this is his habit,” Kharge said in response to a question on Modi’s comments.
Addressing reporters in Kalaburagi, he said, “His (Modi) own party is a party of terrorists, they are involving in lynching, beat people, urinate in the mouths of people from scheduled castes, rape tribal people. His party is a terrorist party, they support people indulging such acts, then they blame others.”
“Modi has no right, wherever his party-led government is there, atrocities happen there on scheduled class people, especially on tribal people. Then he (Modi) says injustice is happening. Is the government ours (Congress) ? It is your (BJP) government, you can control. But Modi’s habit is to speak. He speaks less about country and people, more about party,” he added.
