Malviya took to X, alleging, “India’s chief of opposition Rahul Gandhi meets Ilhan Omar within the USA, a Pakistan-sponsored anti-India voice, a radical Islamist, and an advocate of unbiased Kashmir.Even Pakistani leaders could be extra circumspect about being seen with such rabid parts. Congress is now brazenly working in opposition to India”
He additional claimed that the banned Khalistan terror group supported Gandhi’s latest remarks on the Sikh neighborhood. “Sikhs For Justice, the banned Khalistan terror group, has backed Rahul Gandhi’s misinformed feedback on the Sikh neighborhood within the US. After Ilhan Omar, that is one more occasion of Congress in cahoots with anti-India forces. Congress and Rahul Gandhi are certainly in opposition to India. They’re doing every little thing potential to destroy India’s social cloth.” Malviya tweeted.
Persevering with his criticism, Malviya additionally focused Gandhi’s stance on reservations throughout an interplay at Georgetown College in Washington, DC. “Rahul Gandhi made it clear that he would finally ‘scrap reservations,’” Malviya stated, including, “This reveals that his speak of caste census and empowering the backwards and marginalized is only a façade.”
Different BJP leaders, together with Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and Uttarakhand chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami, joined the refrain of criticism. Sarma stated, “Three consecutive Lok Sabha defeats have pushed the Congress Social gathering into the palms of Islamists and anti-India forces.” Dhami likened Gandhi’s language to that of pro-Khalistan separatists, remarking, “His rhetoric isn’t any completely different from that of Pannun (a delegated terrorist in India).”
BJP spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla additionally condemned former Congress president’s assembly with Ilhan Omar, tweeting, “After spewing venom in opposition to Sikhs and working down India on overseas soil, now Rahul Gandhi meets and engages with anti-India Ilhan Omar.”
Union minister Piyush Goyal criticised LoP, saying, “Can anyone in his proper thoughts justify or endorse the deplorable statements? The completely shameful method wherein India and each Indian is being defamed on overseas soil by Rahul Gandhi. It’s a well-thought agenda of the Congress. I believe it’s by deliberate selection that he’s making these statements as a result of the Congress in its want to assault PM Modi and this third time period that the individuals of India have given to PM Modi. They’re so pissed off that of their frustration they can’t differentiate between a political adversary and the nation.”
Additional criticism got here from Union house minister Amit Shah, who accused Gandhi of aligning with forces that search to divide the nation. “Standing with forces that conspire to divide the nation and making anti-national statements have turn into a behavior for Rahul Gandhi and the Congress social gathering,” Shah wrote on X.
One other BJP stalwart Giriraj Singh went a step additional, calling for authorized motion and suggesting that Gandhi’s parliamentary membership needs to be revoked. “At any time when Rahul Gandhi meets individuals in India, he aligns with anti-India forces, and overseas, he meets figures like Ilhan Omar. It’s time to introduce a regulation to take motion in opposition to such habits. His membership also needs to be cancelled,” Singh stated, recalling a time when membership was revoked for comparable actions below former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s tenure.
