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Rahul Gandhi accuses BJP and RSS of spreading hatred utilizing Hindutva

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Rahul Gandhi claimed on Friday that there’s a distinction between Hinduism and Hindutva, and accused BJP and RSS of spreading hate. In his video deal with on the launch of the Congress get together’s digital marketing campaign Jan Jagran Abhiyan, the Congress chief additional denigrated Hindutva as violent and blamed the BJP and the RSS for utilizing Hindutva to unfold hatred amongst folks.
Rahul Gandhi stated within the video, “Is Hinduism about beating a Sikh or a Muslim? Hindutva of course is. But is Hinduism about killing Akhlaq? In which book is this written? I have not seen it. I have read the Upanishads, I have not seen it. Where is it written that you should kill an innocent man? I am unable to find this, in Hindu scriptures, in Islamic scriptures, in Sikh scriptures. I can see it in Hindutva,”
“…I have read the Upanishad’s…where is it written to kill an innocent man?…”Shri @RahulGandhi pic.twitter.com/35q1U5omW6— INC TV (@INC_Television) November 12, 2021
The former Congress president stated that whereas the scriptures of Hinduism clearly didn’t counsel the killing of an harmless, the ideology of Hindutva helps such violence.
Rahul Gandhi additional stated that the ideology of the Congress get together was overshadowed by the ‘hateful ideology’ of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He stated, “Today, whether we like it or not the hateful ideology of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has overshadowed the loving, affectionate and nationalistic ideology of Congress Party, we have to accept this. Our ideology is alive, vibrant but it has been overshadowed,”
“विचारधारा की लड़ाई सबसे ज़रूरी लड़ाई हो गयी है!”श्री @RahulGandhi pic.twitter.com/2uB8GTwEi3— INC TV (@INC_Television) November 12, 2021
Rahul Gandhi then additional defined the necessity of Congress staff to know what their ideology is. He stated, “This is the foundational mission of Congress karyakartas. This is going to be central. And in my view, (K C) Venugopal ji and others might have a different opinion, but in my view it should be compulsory. It should be mandatory. Every single person should go through it. It should be a rigorous course and it should develop people who have real understanding of what it means to be a Congressperson,”
Notably, Rahul Gandhi’s statements differentiating between Hinduism and Hindutva comes within the backdrop of  Congress chief Salman Khurshid’s comparability of Hindutva to Islamic terror organisations like ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) and Boko Haram. Salman Khurshid in contrast ISIS, one of the dreaded Islamic terror group has been liable for terror assaults internationally lately to Hindutva via a remark made within the chapter known as ‘The Saffron Sky’ in his ebook ‘Sunrise over Ayodhya’.