Creation Of ‘Hindu Pakistan’ will be result of BJP Win In 2019: Shashi Tharoor

If elections of year 2019 results will land up re-electing BJP then rights of minorities would be squashed, making India a “Hindu Pakistan”, says Congress leader Shashi Tharoor. This comment gained major attention which finally demanded an apology from Congress president Rahul Gandhi to calm down.

On Tuesday, addressing an event in Thiruvananthapuram Mr Tharoor also had said that the BJP will write a new constitution, making India less tolerant and inclusive.

He said, “If they (BJP) win a repeat in the Lok Sabha our democratic constitution as we understand it will not survive as they will have all the elements they need to tear apart the constitution of India and write a new one.”

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“That new one will be the one which will enshrine principles of Hindu Rashtra, that will remove equality for minorities, that’ll create a Hindu Pakistan and that isn’t what Mahatma Gandhi, Nehru, Sardar Patel, Maulana Azad and great heroes of freedom struggle fought for,” he was quoted as saying by news agency ANI.

However, BJP attacked Tharoor and sought an apology from Rahul Gandhi for this comments. Speaking to the media, BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra said, “Rahul Gandhi must apologise for what Shashi Tharoor said. Congress was responsible for creation of Pak because of its ambitions yet again it has gone ahead to demean India and defame Hindus of India.”

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