Union Minister Giriraj Singh on Friday launched a scathing attack against Congress MP and Lok Sabha Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi, alleging that he was encouraging unrest and trying to drive the nation towards domestic conflict.
This came after Rahul Gandhi posted a social media note underlining the role that young people and students had in protecting India's democracy and Constitution.
Reacting sharply, Giriraj Singh claimed: “Rahul Gandhi is frustrated and desperate. I have said before, he keeps imitating, sometimes copying Modi ji. He wants to become an urban Naxal. Rahul Gandhi is already acting as an urban Naxal. India will never accept an urban Naxal like him, who wants to trap the country in civil war. Sometimes he incites Muslims, sometimes he spreads nonsense, and sometimes his people say Bangladesh like violence will happen here. This is unfortunate. India’s Leader of Opposition has never been like this before. He is an urban Naxal.”
BJP leader Syed Shahnawaz Hussain also criticised LoP Gandhi, alleging, "Rahul Gandhi is inciting the youth, students, and Gen Zs of the country. He is provoking them against the nation. This is completely unacceptable."
He stated, "The youth of this country admire PM Modi. They know that this government works for them and for the poor..."
The controversy was triggered after LoP Gandhi posted on his X handle: “The youth of the country, the students of the country, the Gen Z of the country, will save the Constitution, protect democracy, and stop vote theft. I always stand with them. Jai Hind!”
Singh also accused Rahul Gandhi and former Bihar Chief Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav of engaging in "vote bank politics" by allegedly backing infiltrators and illegal aliens.
“Now they are taking away the rights of Indians, irrespective of caste. Rahul and Lalu Yadav only indulge in vote bank politics. That so-called ‘Yatra’ was nothing but an infiltration protection rally, it wasn’t called that, but that’s what it was. It was a Rohingya and infiltrators’ protection rally,” Singh professed.
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