BJP politics to blame for terror outfits like Indian Mujahideen: Congress

Accusing Congress of playing the communal card for vote bank politics,BJP calls remark stupid,says Pakistan links to Indian Mujahideen well-known.

The Congress on Sunday blamed the Gujarat riots of 2002 for the creation of terror outfit Indian Mujahideen. The BJP slammed the remark as reprehensible and accused the Congress of playing the communal card for vote bank politics.

Indian Mujahideen (IM) was formed after the Gujarat riots,says NIA in its chargesheet. Even now BJP and RSS will not desist from communal politics? Congress leader Shakeel Ahmed said on Twitter.

The contents of the chargesheet,filed on July 17,were first reported by The Indian Express. It claimed that the IM was formed after the Babri Masjid demolition and the Gujarat riots.

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Hitting back at the Congress,the BJP said the remarks were stupid and reprehensible as the Pakistan links of such outfits were well-known and alleged that it was Congress which was trying to communalise the political scenario and playing with national security as it had no answers for all the wrongs it had done.

Ahmed said that the BJPs communal politics set off a chain reaction on the issue of terror. If they foresake their communal politics,outfits like the IM will cease to exist, he said.

The BJP said it was well known that Pakistan has been aiding and abetting terror in India. There is this competition among various Congress spokespersons and leaders to deliberately communalise the political scenario, Ravi Shankar Prasad said. Is it not a fact that the IM has links with Pakistan-based terrorist outfits?… Is it not a fact that much before 2002,there was SIMI?

Prasad added that there was peace in Gujarat for 10 years and Muslims were becoming prosperous in the state.