Hitting back at Home Minister Amit Shah for holding the Congress responsible for India’s partition on religious lines, Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Tuesday said the BJP president was “not paying attention” in history classes as the Hindu Mahasabha and the Muslim League were the only ones espousing the two-nation theory.
Mr. Tharoor, while speaking at the Lokmat National Conclave on the ‘Role of Regional Parties in Indian Politics’, said that resistance to the BJP’s “majoritarian Hindi, Hindutva, Hindustan” narrative will come increasingly from the States.
“I think the imposition of Hindi is simply not going to be accepted by the South, that is something the BJP is already discovering. Similarly, a lot of the Hindutva agenda is not shared south of the Vindhyas,” he said.
On Mr. Shah’s remarks blaming the Congress, Mr. Tharoor said, “They blame the Congress for everything. The Congress and (Jawaharlal) Nehru. Bad weather in Delhi tomorrow, they will blame it on Nehru.”
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