“Let’s Not Talk Of Ravan Today”: Himanta Biswa Sarma’s Swipe At Rahul Gandhi

Guwahati:

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma right this moment responded with a Ramayan reference when a reporter requested why Congress’s Rahul Gandhi was not allowed to enter a temple within the state. The reference although, was of Ravan, the 10-headed demon king the BJP has been evaluating the Congress to since its three high leaders declined the invite to hitch the temple inauguration in Ayodhya which befell right this moment, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

“Why are you speaking of Ravan?” Mr Sarma replied. “No less than discuss Ram right this moment? After 500 years, right this moment is an efficient day to speak about Ram. At present at the least allow us to not speak of Ravan,” he added.

Rahul Gandhi is presently conducting the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra that is passing by means of Assam, the place the Congress claimed its convoy has been attacked.

This morning, Mr Gandhi was stopped from getting into the state’s well-known Batadrava Satra Temple, the birthplace of Srimanta Sankardeva, an Assamese saint and scholar from the fifteenth century, in Nagaon. The Congress chief registered protest by sitting on a dharna on the highway in Nagaon, singing Raghupati Raghav Raja Ram.

Later, stopped from persevering with the footmarch, Mr Gandhi held a avenue nook assembly in neighbouring Morigaon district.

Yesterday, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma had urged Mr Gandhi to rethink the route for his ‘Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra’, citing considerations about potential clashes with the programmes to be held within the state alongside the consecration ceremony of the Ram temple in Ayodhya.

Mr Gandhi was not invited for the consecration ceremony. The invite went to get together chief Mallikarjun Kharge, Sonia Gandhi, and the chief of the Congress in Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, all of whom declined, pointing to the politicisation of a spiritual occasion in an election yr.

Rahul Gandhi had made his stance clear vis-a-vis the Ram temple inauguration, calling it a “Narendra Modi Operate”. “The RSS and the BJP have made the January 22 perform a very political, Narendra Modi perform. It has turn into an RSS-BJP perform.” he stated.

“It’s tough for us to go to a political perform, which is designed across the prime minister of India and the RSS. We’ve made it clear that whoever amongst our companions or our get together want to go to the Ram temple is welcome to do it. It’s tough for us to go to (the temple) on January 22. That it is a prime minister’s perform and an RSS perform and we’re going to attend it … it’s not attainable,” he had added, drawing brickbats from the BJP.

“Rahul Gandhi lives in a la-la world. He thinks all the things he says is based on no person understanding the reality and he can get away with these atrocious lies,” stated Union minister and BJP chief Rajeev Chandrasekhar.

The BJP has censured all who declined the invite. Calling the leaders anti-Hindu, the BJP has declared that they’ll get their punishment from the folks on the hustings.