Linking the sharp rise in communal violence in different parts of the country to the Bharatiya Janata Party’s rise to power, Congress president Sonia Gandhi said there were “deliberate attempts to divide society.”
Ms. Gandhi echoed her son and party vice-president Rahul Gandhi’s statement last week that linked the worsening communal situation to the divisive politics of the BJP. Addressing the BJP national council on Sunday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi blamed “vote bank politics” for the volatile situation, in an oblique reference to the Congress.
At a special meeting of the Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee here, Ms. Gandhi said that during the 11 weeks the new government had been in power, more than 600 incidents of communal violence had taken place in Uttar Pradesh and an equal number in Maharashtra. “It is very clear that attempts are on to deliberately create violence to divide society,” she said.
She said the Congress would continue to raise its voice against the violence heaped on defenceless women and children in Gaza.She criticised the BJP government for its silence on atrocities against women and children in Gaza.
