Khurshid 'blood on hand' remark bjp says cong has history of stoking riots

Khurshid 'blood on hand' remark: BJP says Cong has history of stoking riots

Salman Khurshid says 'Congress' hand stained with Muslims blood', Congress party disagrees on Business Standard.

Salman Khurshid made those remarks when asked about 1984 anti-Sikh riots and violence after Babri Masjid demolition in 1992.

Latest News Congress leader Salman Khurshid's statement that his party had stains of blood on its hands was an "acknowledgement" of its history of "engineering communal riots", said the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday. Further, the BJP accused the Congress of continuing to practise the same politics of creating division and tensions to garner votes and said Khurshid's statement, where he is accepting his party's role in past riots, exposes the truth behind party president Rahul Gandhi's 'Save the Constitution' campaign. The Congress distanced itself from Khurshid's remark and said it disagreed with it "in toto". Further, it reminded its leaders that "such unfounded" statements only helped those in power today.

Rahul Gandhi's 'Save the Constitution' is a campaign against and the discrimination of Dalits and dilution of the SC/ST Act. The Congress president also launched a 'Save the Constitution' rally on Monday, in Delhi's Talkatora Stadium, where he said his party would neither allow the BJP and RSS to touch the Constitution nor would the country in 2019.

Calling out to Rahul Gandhi for Congress' history of communal politics, Patra further said, "Rahul Gandhi will have to answer for it, such dual politics will not do."

BJP member Sambit Patra said: "Salman Khurshid has revealed the truth behind Rahul Gandhi’s 'Save the Constitution' campaign. He has admitted that Congress’ hand is stained with blood. It is not only stained with the blood of Muslims but also of Sikhs who were killed in 1984," according to news agency ANI.

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