Team News Riveting
Raipur, September 15
BJP Chief J P Nadda on Friday flagged off the second Parivartan Yatra of the party from Jashpur in Chhattisgarh, lashing out at the Congress for its silence on Sanatan Dharma controversy.
The second Yatra rolled out three days after the first that accelerated from down south of Chhattisgarh in Dantewada. Eyeing to return to the power after five years of Congress rule, the party launched the mass-contact programmes from the southern and northern part of the state, intensifying its campaign against the ruling Congress ahead of the upcoming assembly polls.
After offering prayers at Balaji temple in Jashpur town, Nadda flagged off the Yatra. The BJP President addressed a public meeting at Ranjita stadium ground before flagging off the yatra.
Nadda lashed out at opposition alliance INDIA and claimed the agenda of Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, top leaders of its key constituent Congress, was to “abuse and disrespect” Sanatan Dharma. The BJP President also targeted Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel and asked him to clarify his stand on anti-Sanatan Dharma remarks made by Tamil Nadu minister Udhayanidhi Stalin, whose party DMK is a member of INDIA bloc.
“Indi alliance… ghamandiya (arrogant) alliance held a meeting in Mumbai on September 1. On September 3, Tamil Nadu CM Stalin’s son Udhayanidhi Stalin, whose party DMK is a key partner of the alliance, disrespected Sanatan Dharma by linking it with serious diseases,” Nadda said, adding that he left no stone unturned in disrespecting Sanatan Dharma in every way.
The next day, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge’s son, who is a minister in the Karnataka government, attacked Sanatan Dharma and subsequently another minister from Tamil Nadu, too, targeted the ancient faith, he added.
Nadda said, “What should we understand from this? Sonia Gandhi is silent till today on the issue. Rahul goes all over the world and talks about the Constitution, but avoids saying even a single word on it (Sanatan issue).” “My allegation is that the mother-son duo handed over the agenda abusing and disrespecting Santana Dharma in the Mumbai meeting to the DMK and other parties (of INDIA). Actually, it is the agenda of Sonia and Rahul,” the BJP President said.
The BJP chief sought to know if the Constitution has given right to anyone to disrespect a religion. “Is it written in the Constitution that any religion, any idea, any belief should be abused or has the Constitution given right to disrespect any religion? You (Rahul) say that you run ‘mohabbat ki dukan’ (shop of love), but hatred is being sold in your shop,” Nadda said.
