Bharatiya Janata Party leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi warned Saturday that Congress Party vice president Rahul Gandhi's "communal riots remark" in Uttar Pradesh could have a negative rebounding impact on that party itself.
Naqvi told ANI, "Rahul Gandhi should understand that he should stop using his political secularism formula. If he continues with his formula, it will be difficult for them. They should try to find a better political direction for their party. People have rejected them and still they are not able to understand that."
Another BJP leader Siddharth Nath Singh said, "In Uttar Pradesh, it has been the policy of the SP and the Congress to go for vote-bank politics. The Congress and SP have both led in the name of vote-bank politics, a policy to divide the people of Uttar Pradesh."
Attacking the Congress Party, Union Environment, Forest and Climate Change Minister of State (Independent Charge) Prakash Javadekar said, "Rahul Gandhi going into an attacking mode is a useless thing, because the Congress is the biggest party that does communal politics. Congress spreads communal poison in the country, but we try to take everyone along."
According to reports, Rahul Gandhi had said in an interview to a leading daily that the communal incidents in Uttar Pardesh were to "divide the poor and pit brother against brother".