Cong displaying its ‘genetic’ political intolerance: Naidu

As the Congress marched to the Rashtrapati Bhawan against the “growing intolerance”, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Centre on Tuesday hit out a the grand old party, saying “politically-displaced” people were challenging the democratic mandate and were resorting to such “dramatic actions” out of their desperation to stay relevant.

Alleging that “political intolerance” was in the Congress’ genes, Union Minister and senior BJP leader M Venkaiah Naidu said they are going to the “wrong address” as they should have gone to the Raj Bhawans instead, as such “stray unfortunate” incidents happened in states ruled by  the Congress or its allies.

“Congress talking about intolerance is like a devil quoting scriptures,” he said, adding that the mass exodus and genocide of Kashmiri Pandits happened during their regime. It is a well-organised effort to defame our cultural ethos, which are based on time-tested traditions of accommodation and acceptance,” he said.

The Union Minister of Urban Development, Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation and Parliamentary Affairs added: “This ongoing campaign is a clear effort to derail developmental momentum. They don’t want the Modi government to succeed. Now, to say that intolerance is raising suddenly is far from truth.”