Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Sunday attacked Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi for voicing “sympathies” for “those who raised slogans for breaking up India” and said it was Mr. Gandhi’s “ideological hollowness” that he did something that the likes of Indira and Rajiv Gandhi never did.
The BJP leader also termed JNUSU leader Kanhaiya Kumar’s speech, delivered following his release on bail, a “victory for us”, saying he had gone to jail for raising anti-India slogans but came back to speak amid slogans of ‘Jai Hind’ and hoisting of the tricolour.
In his valedictory address to a convention of Bhartiya Janata Yuva Morcha, BJP’s youth wing, Mr. Jaitley said it was the country’s “misfortune” that Mr. Gandhi sympathised with the actions of a “small group of Jihadists and a bigger group of Maoists.”
