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Giving Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP)’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi back in the same coin, the Congress on Saturday said Modi stands for 'Model of Dividing India'.
The Congress accused BJP leaders of playing the "communal card" to garner votes. Union Minister Kapil Sibal's remarks at the All India Congress Committee briefing came days after Priyanka Gandhi had mocked Narendra Modi for his ABCD and RSVP jibes against Congress telling him that he should realise that he was not addressing primary school students.
Modi had said Congress was faithful to the RSVP model, meaning Rahul, Sonia, Robert Vadra and Priyanka, the Gandhi family members. He had also attacked the United Progressive Alliance government saying "A for Adarsh scam, B for Bofors scam, C for Coal scam, D for Damad (son-in-law) scam... This is the new A B C D... which the Congress adopted to introduce in a new book of alphabets for children."
Sibal accused Modi of lowering political discourse saying, "He was aiming to be the PM but even a municipal councillor would know better about use of language and maintaining dignity."
Releasing a number of photos allegedly taken from Twitter account of some senior BJP leaders, as well as from some district level leaders, Sibal said photographs of events in Pakistan, Palestine and Bangladesh were being shown on these twitter handles as occurring in India to communalise the atmosphere.
He said one of the accounts was in the name of Nitin Gadkari.
