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Back in Amethi, Rahul Gandhi says a 'Hindutvavadi' bathes alone in Ganga

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday brought back his ‘Hindu versus Hindutvavadi’ analogy as he described someone bathing alone in the Ganga as one belonging to the second category, while the former would be one who takes crores along in his journey.Addressing a gathering in his former Lok Sabha constituency Amethi along with sister and Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi, Rahul also spoke about the true meaning of a Hindu as someone who only follows the path of truth and never converts his fear into violence, hate and anger.“A 'Hindutvavadi' bathes alone in Ganga, while a Hindu bathes with crores of people. (Prime Minister) Narendra Modi says he is a Hindu, but when did he protect the truth? He said he would give two crore youth jobs, where did he do so? He asked people to bang thalis to get rid of Covid… Hindu or Hindutvadi?” the former Congress president was quoted as saying by news agency ANI.#WATCH | A 'Hindutvavadi' bathes alone in Ganga, while a Hindu bathes with crores of people...Narendra Modi says he is a Hindu, but when did he protect truth?...He asked people to bang thalis to get rid of COVID...Hindu or Hindutvadi?: Congress MP Rahul Gandhi in Amethi pic.twitter.com/S51O22YxF9In a widely televised event, Modi was recently seen taking a bath in the Ganga in Varanasi ahead of inaugurating the first phase of the Kashi-Vishwanath corridor in his Lok Sabha constituency."For the first time I saw just one person taking bath in the Ganga, removed Yogi (Adityanath), sidelined Rajnath Singh... The entire world saw only one person was bathing in the Ganga… Remember when Narendra ji was young he fought with a crocodile, I thought he didn't know swimming...struggling with his handsRahul further spoke about the difference between Mahatma Gandhi and his assassin Nathuram Godse. “Mahatma Gandhi spent all his life understanding truth and then there is Godse- a 'Hindutvavadi'. Nobody calls him (Godse) a ‘Mahatma’ (a revered soul) because he killed a Hindu who always spoke the truth… Godse was a coward, a weak man. He could not face his fears,” the Wayanad MP said.“I will tell you the meaning of Hindu. It is someone who only follows the path of truth, the one who never gives up to fear, and the one who never converts his fear into violence, hate and anger... It's best example is Mahatma Gandhi.”“The PM bought farm laws and said they are going to benefit farmers. After one year when all farmers stood together against the laws, the PM had to apologise. We asked about the compensation to be given to farmers’ families who died in the protest, he said no farmers died in the protest.”“You are aware of the situation today. Unemployment and inflation are the biggest questions that neither the CM nor PM will answer. The PM was taking a dip in Ganga a few days ago, but would not talk about unemployment. I will tell you why the youth is deprived of jobs.”“Middle-class people and the poor were badly affected by some of the decisions taken by the PM, which also resulted in large-scale unemployment. Demonetisation, wrongly implicated GST, no help during the Covid-19 crisis are some of the major reasons for unemployment in India,” the Congress leader said.

Hindustan Times

18-12-2021

India