Days after Rahul Gandhi’s remarks about Hinduism and Hindutva, Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar has made a veiled attack on the BJP and said “those in power today” consider those practising Hinduism as real Indians and want others to practice their way of thinking.
Addressing an event on Sunday, Aiyar made reference to party leader Rahul Gandhi’s remarks at an organisational event. “Rahulji recently said there is a difference between Hinduism and Hindutva. Those of us, who believe in Hindu religion, consider country’s all citizens Indians. Then there are some, in power today, who say 80 per cent Indians who practice Hindu religion are real Indians. The rest of the people are non-Indians and staying here as guests who can be driven out when wanted…,” Aiyar said. The former union minister said that India’s first Prime Minister Jawahar Lal Nehru fully understood India’s diversity.
Rahul Gandhi had said last week that Hinduism and Hindutva are two different things and stated that RSS had a “hateful ideology”.