Belgaum, Sep 18: Congress general secretary in-charge of Karnataka Digvijaya Singh has launched a scathing attack on the œdouble standards of the BJP on issues of communalism.
Addressing presspersons at the Belgaum District Congress Committee Office here, Mr. Singh said that while Prime Minister Narendra Modi talked about having no communal tension for the next 10 years, his own MP Mahant Adityanath made hate speeches. œHome Minister Rajnath Singh wants to know what is meant by'Love Jihad'. Probably he has not read Panchajanya brought out by the RSS. It is the double standard of the BJP that while one instigates communal feelings, the other wears the mask of communal harmony, he said.
Mr. Singh said the BJP had œsown the seeds of communal clash in north Karnataka and the Congress would hold'sadbhavana' (communal harmony) meetings in the coming days. Taking a dig at the BJP's œacche din slogan, he said that while the people of the country hadn't seen them, the BJP members definitely had.
He said the BJP, which came to power at the Centre by promising'ache din' (good days) for the people, could not replicate its performance in the byelections. The party lost seats it had won earlier. People have realised that good days have not come for them, but for the BJP, he lamented.
The BJP could win three seats in the Assembly byelections in Uttar Pradesh. The'Love Jihad' campaign launched by the party could not yield results and people chose communal harmony, he said.
Deputy CM post
Replying to a query he said that the party had empowered Chief Minister Siddaramaiah to decide on creating the post of deputy chief minister.
Singh told reporters that it was the chief minister's prerogative to create the post of deputy chief minister, to include or drop members from his cabinet and expand it.
Some of the members of the Cabinet could be efficient and some not so efficient. It was for the chief minister to decide on retaining them or dropping them, Singh said.
On the issue of banning Sri Rama Sene in the State, Singh said the statements by Sene chief Pramod Mutalik were highly inflammatory. But banning an organisation was not the solution to incidents of communal violence. œThe same people will start a new organization. There was a need to act against those involved in incidents of communal violence, he said
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