After the bid to assassinate former US president Donald Trump, BJP called out Congress for the incendiary and inciting language used by Rahul Gandhi and other Congress leaders during the Lok Sabha campaign and said inflammatory language that fuelled the attack on Trump was also used against PM Narendra Modi.
Party spokespersons recalled Rahul referring to the PM as Hitler and his “Woh (Modi) ghar se nahi nikal paayega, Hindustan ke yuva usko danda marenge (PM will be beaten with lathis if he were to venture out of his house)” remark, and said it was this type of provocative remark which encouraged political violence.
“Incidentally, ‘democracy is in danger’ is the theme in the US presidential election too, just like ‘samvidhaan ko bachana hai’ was the opposition’s pitch in India. Caste, like race in America, was weaponised to drive a wedge in Indian society. Demonising opponents and calling them dictators is also not a coincidence. The global money bag, with dangerous ideas, used the term for the first time, to describe democratically elected powerful world leaders, who he couldn’t control,” BJP’s IT department head Amit Malviya said in a post on X.