AHMEDABAD: Doubling down on its opposition to the waqf law, the Congress leadership led by Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday termed it as an attack on the freedom of religion and the Constitution, and warned that after Muslims, RSS will come for Christians, Sikhs and other minorities. Congress also targeted PM Narendra Modi and BJP-RSS, alleging them of fomenting hatred and religious division and attacking the Constitution, and termed the law as part of the communal strategy of the governing party.
Rahul also warned of an “economic devastation” in the wake of tariffs imposed by US President Donald Trump. “Modi did not utter a word and is missing till now… where is he hiding?” he asked.
Congress president Kharge said, “Instead of preparing for future challenges, BJP is stoking 500-year-old issues to stoke communalism. Modi starts the fire and RSS pours fuel on it.”
He said Congress is locked in a second war of independence against “communalism and injustice”, even as Rahul said Congress fought the British and RSS together during the freedom struggle, as he attacked RSS for “burning” the Constitution. “Their ideology is against the Constitution, they want to end democracy, control all the institutions and give entire wealth to Adani and Ambani,” Rahul said. Kharge said, “Modi will sell the country”.
Interestingly, Rahul said only Congress has the ideology to fight and stop BJP and RSS, which other parties cannot, and argued that parties that don’t have clarity or ideology cannot stand up to RSS-BJP – in what was an echo of his speech at the Udaipur ‘chintan shivir’ which riled allies.
