Rahul Gandhi an 'ichchadhari Hindu': MP minister

Madhya Pradesh Home Minister Narottam Mishra described Rahul Gandhi as an "ichchadhari Hindu" while BJP MLA Rameshwar Sharma filed a police complaint against the Congress leader for insulting Hindu deities and and making statements that disturb communal harmony.

Bhopal: BJP leaders continued their attacks on Rahul Gandhi for his comments Wednesday on the saffron party and the RSS with Madhya Pradesh Home Minister Narottam Mishra describing the Congress leader as an “ichchadhari Hindu” (a Hindu according to his convenience).

"Rahul Gandhi is an 'ichchadhari Hindu',” Mishra said. “He conveniently puts on cap and tika, goes on religious tours and after going on religious tours he talks like this."

Meanwhile, BJP MLA Rameshwar Sharma lodged a complaint with the police against Rahul Gandhi for insulting Hindu deities and and making statements that disturb communal harmony. Sharma, along with his supporters, went to the Arera Hills police station to file the complaint.

"Thank god that RSS was born in 1925 at the right time,” the BJP MLA said while filing the complaint. “If there was no RSS, Congress would have been running around killing Hindus.”

In his complaint, he stated: “ Congress MP Rahul Gandhi has insulted the centre of faith of Hindus by pronouncing the names of Maa Durga and Maa Lakshmi in a disrespectful manner at a programme organised in Delhi September 15. Even before this, Rahul Gandhi had made objectionable remarks against Hindu deities and those who believe in them in Jammu and Kashmir and other places. These words of Rahul Gandhi are creating enmity against the religious community and disturbing harmony.”

Sharma said that the Sikh riots, the exodus of Hindus from Jammu and Kashmir, and killing of soldiers took place during the Congress rule itself. He said that if the FIR is not registered, he would approach the court.

On the Foundation Day of All India Mahila Congress Wednesday, Rahul Gandhi attacked the BJP saying that that the ideology of the saffron party and the RSS is the same.

“They are fake Hindus and using Hinduism for their gains, they are not Hindus but brokers of religion,” the Congress MP said.

"They call themselves a Hindu party. But wherever they go they attack Laxmi and Durga and kill the goddesses, and then they say that they are Hindus – what type of Hindus are they?"

Rahul Gandhi said Laxmi and Durga are symbols of empowerment of women and the government is using all means to destroy them through demonetisation, GST, farm laws and inflation.

"The Congress has a different ideology and as a Congress worker, I can compromise with other ideologies but cannot compromise with the ideology of the BJP and the RSS,” he added.