"Do tin pahele meiney Congress Manifesto, Vote ki rajniti aur tushtikaran ka parda faas kya tha. Is sey Congress aur eco system mein itni mirchi lagi "
(Two-three days back I exposed Congress, their manifesto and their politics of Muslim appeasement...This has unnerved them so much)," - PM Narendra Modi said in Rajasthan.
(Big Picture message or otherwise --- the word “Hindu” does not appear in Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) 76-page election manifesto)
Senior BJP figures such as Yogi Adityanath, a hardline Hindu monk who is the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, have been accused of making derogatory comments towards Muslims in speeches.
However, as prime minister, Modi has tended to steer clear of explicit mentions of Muslims, and instead been accused of “dog whistle” politics and indirect references to single out Muslims.
Mallikarjun Kharge, Congress president, has reacted strongly accusing Modi of “hate speech” and violating the election model code of rules that ban canvassing based on communal lines.
The Congress party in their complaint maintained that the remarks from Modi were “far worse than any ever made by a sitting Prime Minister in the history of India”.
But BJP leaders find nothing wrong in Modi's statement.
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said, "The Congress party's manifesto is prepared in a way that they win elections in Pakistan. The manifesto is more for the people of Pakistan and less for the people of India"
"The Congress has made a manifesto which will snatch resources from the common people and Congress will destroy the economy of the country. We have interpreted the Congress manifesto in the most right way. I will challenge them to come for a public debate to show that this manifesto is nothing but appeasement," Himanta Biswa Sarma said at Ernakulum in Kerala.
Another BJP leader and Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav said, "What kind of thought is it that only one community (Muslims as alleged) has the right over resources meant for everyone?"
"The Congress should apologise to the country...," Yadav went a step further.
On Tuesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi made yet another round of attackon Congress and said. "The truth is that when the Congress was in power, they wanted to give separate reservation to their special vote bank (Muslims)....Whereas the Constitution is completely against this...".
BJP spokesman Gaurav Bhatia told journalists in Delhi the PM Modi has only called “a spade a spade” and his remarks resonated with what people thought about the politics of Congress party.
Since the BJP came to power in 2014 with a Hindu nationalist agenda, it has been accused of policies and rhetoric that targeted minorities, particularly Muslims, who have allegedly been subjected to rising violence and persecution both by the state and by right-wing Hindu vigilante outfits.
The BJP has only one Muslim candidate running in this election.
"The derogatory reference to intruders and 'hoarders' is untrue and part of their ideological code.
The fact that the Prime Minister himself has come forward to take political advantage by saying communalism during the elections is an illustration of the challenges facing democratic and secular values in the country," Kerala CM Pinyari Vijayan, a senior Marxist, said during a press conference in Kannur.
“Do you think your hard-earned money should be given to infiltrators? Would you accept this?”, thus spoke Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in reference to the principal opposition Congress party and Muslims. This has sparked off perhaps the biggest political row in this year's election season in India and it has immense polarizing power.
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