Elamaram Kareem, Rajya Sabha MP, has accused the Congress of pursuing a soft-Hindutva stand on critical issues concerning the country.
He was opening a protest event organised by the Kozhikode district committee of the Left Democratic Front seeking action against Shaija Andavan, Professor at the National Institute of Technology-Calicut, who hailed Mahatma Gandhi’s assassin Nathuram Godse in one of her Facebook comments.
Mr. Kareem said that the Modi-led government had been implementing extreme right-wing Hindutva policies of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. Secularist and Left parties are opposing it. “What is the stand of the Congress, which claims to be a secular party, on such issues? That party is stuck in the midst with its soft-Hindutva,” he claimed.
