Rahul Gandhi, senior Congress leader and United Democratic Front (UDF) candidate in the Wayanad Lok Sabha constituency, on Monday took on Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan asking why the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) are not attacking the latter in the same way he is being targeted.
The former Congress president and Wayanad MP was addressing an election campaign rally organised by the UDF at the Kozhikode beach in the evening. Indirectly replying to Mr. Vijayan’s allegation that the Congress party and Mr. Gandhi were silent on the Citizenship (Amendment) Act [CAA], he said that the party would never decide citizenship on the basis of caste or religion.
“I attack the RSS and the BJP, and I have been doing it relentlessly. 24x7 they are after me. I spend 55 hours being interrogated by the Enforcement Directorate (ED). After I gave a speech in Parliament, the BJP had me removed. I was reinstated by the Supreme Court. They took away my house... I have not wavered from attacking the RSS and the BJP. Because it is an ideological battle that I fight,” he said. However, Mr. Gandhi pointed out that whenever someone attacked the BJP, it attacked them back.
