Congress will not imitate BJP on Hindutva issue, otherwise it will be zero: Shashi Tharoor

New Delhi, November 1, 2020, Sunday

Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has warned his own Congress party that the Congress is not in a position to risk becoming a version of the BJP, otherwise the party will be reduced to zero.

"It is not fair to assume that the Congress is presenting the ideology of the BJP. The spirit of Indian secularism is still alive within the Congress," he said. As Congress will come to zero. Congress is not like BJP in any way and we should not try to imitate BJP weakly. Congress is not doing that.

"Secularism is in danger in India and the present BJP government may try to remove this very word from the constitution," Tharoor said.

In an interview to a news agency on the occasion, Tharoor said that even if the present government removes the word "secular" from the constitution, the constitution will in fact remain secular. One thing is clear in the Congress party that the Congress has another version of BJP. Don't let it happen, Congress is differentiating between Hindutva and Hindutva. Hinduism is inclusive and Hindutva is a political principle. Rahul Gandhi has made it clear that going to the temple is his personal Hindutva.

He said that in India, freedom of worship, freedom of expression, rights of minorities, equality for all citizens are fundamental in all these constitutions. Even if the word secularism is removed from the constitution, these values ​​and rights must remain. Wants to install.