Sonia attacks BJP by saying communal violence increased drastically

12 Aug 2014 Evaluate

In a sharp attack on the ruling BJP, Congress president Sonia Gandhi said communal violence had 'increased drastically' since the new government took charge in May. At a meeting of Congress leaders in Kerala, Mrs Gandhi said communal violence had increased in states like Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra in the past 11 weeks since the BJP came to power.

During UPA 1 and 2, there were hardly such instances. But in a very short span there have had nothing less than 600 incidents of communal violence in UP and perhaps as many in Maharashtra. These indeed are created deliberately to divide our society along religious lines, so we should do our bit to create a pluralistic society, said Gandhi. Her words underscored the Congress' campaign to highlight what it calls 'communal politics' on BJP's watch. She also criticized the Modi government for its attitude towards the happenings at Gaza.

Last week, party vice president Rahul Gandhi protested in the well of the Lok Sabha in an unusual show of aggression, demanding a discussion on communal violence. He later accused Speaker Sumitra Mahajan of bias and alleged that 'only one man is heard in Parliament', an allusion to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The government finally agreed to a debate. On the weekend Mr Gandhi alleged in a newspaper interview that the communal conflict in Uttar Pradesh have been 'artificially and deliberately engineered' as part of a strategy to 'divide the poor,' clearly aiming at the BJP.

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