BJP slams Rahul Gandhi for refusing to put on Rudraksha mala

A video has been doing the rounds on the microblogging web site Twitter during which senior Congress chief Rahul Gandhi is seen refusing to simply accept what’s being alleged to be a Rudraksha garland supplied to him by the previous Haridwar municipal president Satpal Brahmachari.
In the viral video first shared by the Uttarakhand unit of BJP, Rahul Gandhi is seen exhibiting his hand to Satpal Brahmachari when the latter approached the Congress chief to supply him a garland supposedly manufactured from Rudraksha.
कांग्रेस के चुनावी हिन्दू की हकीकत देख लीजिए। मंच पर मंत्रोच्चार चल रहा है और @RahulGandhi हाथ बांधे खड़े हैं। इतना ही नहीं जब इन्हें रुद्राक्ष की माला पहनाई जा रही थी तो इन्होंने साफ मना कर दिया।संस्कार बोलते हैं pic.twitter.com/2R31LHTU0S— BJP Uttarakhand (@BJP4UK) December 17, 2021
The video is from Rahul Gandhi’s Thursday rally in Uttarakhand’s capital Dehradun. Rahul Gandhi had addressed the ‘Vijay Samman Rally’ organised by the Congress get together in Dehradun throughout his first go to to the state forward of the meeting elections. The rally was organised nearly two weeks after Prime Minister Narendra Modi had addressed a rally in Dehradun, the place he had additionally inaugurated and laid basis stones for varied growth initiatives within the state on December 4.
After the video was posted by BJP Uttarakhand, a number of BJP leaders reshared it, blasting the Congress scion, who has just lately been pontificating on Hinduism, for his hypocrisy.
BJP chief Amit Malviya tweeted the video asserting: “He is the same man who hops temples just before elections, claims to be a janeudhari Hindu and of late pontificates on Hinduism.” 
First a 1971 battle veteran is pushed round in Rahul Gandhi’s presence then he refuses to simply accept a rudraksh supplied by one of many attendees. He is similar man who hops temples simply earlier than elections, claims to be a janeudhari Hindu and of late pontificates on Hinduism.#Uttarakhand pic.twitter.com/qxETt4EIG8— Amit Malviya (@amitmalviya) December 17, 2021
BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra too lashed out on the Congress chief by Tweeting in Hindi, “जिन्हें है जालीदार टोपी से प्यार, उन्हें ही है रूद्राक्ष की माला से इनकार.. ” (Those who love mesh hats, are those who deny Rudraksha garland). He was referring to skullcaps by mesh hats.
Rahul Gandhi’s inadvertent retaliation will undoubtedly derail his latest efforts to ascertain himself as a honest Janeu-dhari Hindu.
Interestingly, with the excessive octane Uttar Pradesh and the Uttarakhand Assembly elections approaching, the Gandhi scion has been more and more utilizing the Hindu-Hindutvawadi trope to assault the BJP authorities within the states. However, he has landed up making a number of goof-ups within the course of.
Rahul’s rant on Hindus v/s Hindutvawadi
His latest rant on the variations between Hindus and Hindutvawadi on the ‘Mehangai Hatao’ Rally in Jaipur, Rajasthan, didn’t go nicely. Following his sermon, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Indresh Kumar on Thursday lashed out at Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, stating that Gandhi’s information on the topic “is very poor”.
“Without Hindutva, a Hindu cannot remain a living being. By drawing a distinction between the terms Hindu and Hindutva, he has separated the body from its soul. He has very poor knowledge and concept,” Kumar advised media individuals within the nationwide capital.
“I have no idea” clip of Rahul Gandhi goes viral
Prior to this, Rahul Gandhi’s ‘I have no idea’ clip had gone viral. One amusing occasion within the video is from the Gokaranath Ghat the place Rahul Gandhi is seen participating in a puja. As the priest concludes the puja, a reporter from NDTV innocently asks Rahul Gandhi for what goal did he carry out the puja. The Gandhi scion then candidly solutions, “I have no idea. They wanted me to come here so I came.”
‘Lord Shiva had swallowed the entire universe’: Janeu-dhari Congress scion misquotes Hindu scriptures
In one other occasion, the Gandhi scion whereas addressing his get together employees by way of video conferencing on the event of the launch of Congress get together’s digital marketing campaign Jan Jagran Abhiyan had distorted a widely known story from Puranas concerning Lord Shiva. Giving an analogy from Hindu mythology, Rahul Gandhi stated that Lord Shiva had swallowed your entire universe.
However, Rahul Gandhi massively misquoted Hindu scriptures when he claimed that Shiva had swallowed the universe. Because Lord Shiva had swallowed poison with the potential to destroy your entire universe, he didn’t swallow your entire universe. Shiva ingesting poison that emerged through the churning of the ocean is among the most well-known tales from Hindu texts, and it’s ironic that janeu-dhari Rahul Gandhi misquoted such a widely known story.