Ahead of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Sunday asked party workers to counter the BJP’s “Hindutva card”, said sources.
Gandhi Vadra, who was on a visit to Uttar Pradesh, met the Congress workers from Rae Bareli and Amethi. According to sources, during the meeting, she spoke about Hindutva and said that party workers should discuss the matter with voters. She alleged that the BJP was spreading propaganda. She asked party workers to spread the message that Congress respected all religions. She asked the party workers to give a reply to BJP’s Hindutva card. “Talk about Hindutva and answer people. We also worship and have darshan in temples,” she told the party workers.
On Friday, Gandhi Vadra attended a meeting of the party’s election panel in Lucknow.
Congress will conduct a Pratigya Yatra in the state covering 12,000 km ahead of the Assembly elections that are due for early next year. The decision was taken in the meeting of the Advisory and Strategy Committee of the Uttar Pradesh Congress chaired by party’s state in-charge Priyanka Gandhi Vadra. In the meeting, it was decided that zone-wise election campaigns and programmes would be started.
‘MOTHER OF TERRORISM’
Meanwhile, in the state’s Kushinagar, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday said Congress is the mother of terrorism in the country and insults people’s faith in Lord Ram. After launching several development projects in Kushinagar, the CM said, “Congress is the mother of terrorism in the country. There is no need to tolerate people who hurt the country. Congress gives disease, insults faith in Lord Ram and gives shelter to the mafia. But the BJP heals citizens, paves the way for the construction of a grand temple of Lord Shri Ram and sends the mafia to the place they deserve. If there is BJP, there is respect for everyone, there is respect for faith,”
“The people of the state should not tolerate the pro-Taliban, casteist, dynastic mentality that shot at the devotees of Lord Ram. Remember! Wherever there is a scorpion, it will bite. Modiji has abolished triple talaq in the country, but you must have read the statement of some Samajwadi Party (SP) leaders. They have supported the acts of the Taliban. The pro-Pakistan terrorists today do not find any hideout anywhere in the country. In 2012, the SP government started withdrawing the cases of terrorists. This country was first looted by the British and then by the Congress. Nehru did not believe in Ram. Indiraji opened fire on the saints. Soniaji denied the existence of Ram,” he added.