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Senior Congress person Digvijaya Singh has alleged that Mohammad Ali Jinnah and Hindutva ideologue V.D. Savarkar caused India’s partition successful 1947, portion the ruling BJP is presently dividing the cities and neighbourhoods.
He claimed connected Thursday (October 30) successful effect to questions concerning media reports astir the alleged exodus of Hindus from 2 Muslim-majority localities successful Sagar metropolis successful the State.
“Jinnah (founder of Pakistan) and Savarkar divided the country, and present the BJP is dividing each metropolis and each neighbourhood,” the Rajya Sabha subordinate told reporters successful Indore.
To a question astir the BJP’s ‘Run for Unity’ connected Friday (October 31), marking the 150th commencement day of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, the Congress person said, “We invited this event, but don’t hide that October 31 is besides a martyrdom day.”
He was referring to erstwhile Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, who was assassinated by her bodyguards connected the greeting of October 31, 1984.
Mr. Singh besides said that “proofs of citizenship” are being collected nether the guise of the Special Intensive Revision of elector lists successful the country.
“Why are booth-level officers (BLOs) removing the names of radical who person already voted 3 oregon 4 times from the elector list, adjacent though nary complaints person been filed? In double-engine governments, BLOs are functioning similar BJP workers,” helium added.
