BJP Creating Artificial Issues To Divide Country: Congress’ Abhishek Singhvi
Mumbai: Congress leader Abhishek Singhvi said that the BJP is creating “artificial issues” like the hijab and national language issues to divide the country. Singhvi further urged people to stop fighting amongst themselves ‘on saffron party’s terms.’
The Congress leader claimed that the BJP was creating a “Frankenstein monster” with the intention of “dividing, intimidating, instigating and antagonizing people”.
“The BJP is fishing the waters of crisis, it is creating the Frankenstein monster… They want to divide, intimidate, provoke and protest people. Someday they bring the hijab, someday they find the language. These are artificially created issues. They draw you into the debate because it suits them…don’t fight on their terms,” he said while in attendance at the annual awards ceremony of the Ladies Study Group Charitable Trust in Kolkata.
Speaking on the breakdown of the Congress party with election strategist Prashant Kishor, Abhishek Manu Singhvi said that the Congress needs reforms but does not necessarily ‘hold hands’ with the election strategist.
Talking about the reason behind the failed talks between Prashant Kishor and the Congress party, Singhvi said there was disagreement.
“Some issues may not have suited X, some may not have suited Y. But there is no animosity or bitterness. I don’t think it’s fair to speculate on this in public or through the press,” he told PTI.
The Rajya Sabha member from West Bengal also spoke on Congress-TMC dynamics and called West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee an ‘important and inevitable’ part of the anti-BJP sector.
“I am saying time and again that Mamataji is an important and indispensable force part of the non-BJP sector. But to say that she is the only opposition face, this particular monopoly approach is wrong. But no one can deny it that she is the pillar of the entire non-BJP sector,” Singhvi said.
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