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New Delhi: War of words between the BJP and the Congress continues, the ruling BharatiyaJanata Party (BJP) has once again attacked the Congress president Rahul Gandhi for his alleged statement that the Congress is the party of Muslims. The matter was once again taken up as the Congress' minority morcha chief NadeemJaved in an interview to the same newspaper confirmed it by saying that there was nothing wrong in it.

Union Human Resource development minister PrakashJavadekar said that there was a programmeorganised on Ramayana in Kerala but the official programme was cancelled that shows its mindset of being the party of only Muslims. "The only genocide that took place after independence in India in which over 3000 Sikhs were burnt alive was actually executed by the Congress," said Javadekar.

New Delhi:The Congress has demanded that Prime Minister NarendraModimust apologise for calling it a party for Muslim men only and said the remark showed his ‘sick mentality’.

Terming the prime minister a “peddler of untruths”, the Congress also challenged him to discuss his allegations against the opposition party in Parliament during the Monsoon Session beginning July 18.Modi during his speech in Azamgarh on Saturday had come down heavily on the Congress over its stand on triple talaq, asking if it was a party for Muslim men alone.

“The prime minister has continuously hurt the dignity of his office. We strictly oppose what he said yesterday. It shows his sick mentality and twisted mindset,” senior Congress spokesperson Anand Sharma said.

New Delhi:The BharatiyaJanata Party on Sunday questioned Congress president Rahul Gandhi's silence over his reported remarks that the Congress is a Muslim party, saying it has no place for Muslim women. The BJP also hit back at the Congress for alleging that Prime Minister NarendraModi has a ‘sick’ mentality after he accused the opposition party of standing only for Muslim men.

Senior BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad said, “The shameful allegations made by the Congress leader against the prime minister only showed their desperation."He said that Gandhi has not yet given his party's support to the government's initiatives on instant triple talaq, despite the Supreme Court banning the practice. Taking on the Gandhi scion over his reported remarks in an Urdu daily that the Congress is a Muslims party, Prasad said he is now "patronising" the minority community.

New Delhi:A day after Karnataka chief minister HD Kumaraswamy broke down while saying he was unhappy heading the state’s Janata Dal (Secular)-Congress coalition government, deputy chief minister of the state Karnataka G Parameshwara attempted damage control.

Kumaraswamy said his party workers were happy while he was not. “You are happy that your brother has become the chief minister, but I am not happy. The pain that I have within me, I have it like Vishakantha (a reference to Lord Shiva drinking poison). I did not become the chief minister to flaunt the title, but to fulfill the unfinished agenda of my father,” he said at a JD(S) felicitation programme.