"BJP does appeasement politics, Congress has always been secular": Mallikarjun Kharge on Amit Shah remarks
Nov 23, 2023
Nagpur (Maharashtra) [India], November 23 : After Union Home Minister Amit Shah slammed Congress stating that appeasement politics crossed all limits under the tenure of the Ashok Gehlot government in Rajasthan, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge on Thursday said that it is the BJP which is doing politics of appeasement and the grand old party has always adopted secular approach.
Addressing reporters in Nagpur, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge," They (BJP) do politics of appeasement. We don't do it. We are secular. We organized the 'Bharat Jodo Yatra'. It is their job to do appeasement and polarization."
Kharge further stated that the caste census will be conducted after Congress forms the government at the Centre.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday criticised the ruling Congress government in Rajasthan, alleging that the communal clashes took place in the state with planned strategies and Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot failed to take any concrete action against the rioters due to 'vote bank' politics.
Addressing a press conference here in Jaipur, on the last day of the campaign for the Rajasthan Assembly elections, Amit Shah said that the state witnessed several incidents as an example of the appeasement politics by the Gehlot-led Congress government.
"Appeasement politics crossed all limits during Gehlot's government. In the last 5 years, planned riots have taken place in Chhabra, Bhilwara, Karauli, Jodhpur, Chittorgarh, Nohar, Mewat, Malpura, and Jaipur. Due to vote bank politics, the Gehlot government did not take any concrete action against the rioters. Bulldozer was used on Ram Darbar in Salasar," Shah said.
"In Alwar, a Shivalinga was broken with a drilling machine. A bulldozer rammed the cow shed in Kathumar; you can see many such cases of appeasement in Rajasthan in the last five years," he added.
Earlier Prime Minister Narendra Modi also accused the Congress Party of "corruption" and "appeasement politics," stating that dynasty politics is everything to them.
Rajasthan will hold polls for 199 seats on November 25. Elections in the Karanpur constituency were adjourned due to the passing of the Congress candidate Gurmeet Singh Koonar. The results will be announced on December 3.
Rajasthan is set for assembly polls on November 25, with votes to be counted on December 3.
