Is Congress really a Muslim Party

What did Rahul say to the Muslim delegates

According to Inquilab Urdu Newspaper when Rahul met a delegation of Muslim Scholars he made a statement that Yes Congress is a Muslim Party. However many news portals have their own interpretation of this statement

According to AltNews, this is what the newspaper reported Gandhi as having said: “If BJP says that Congress is a party of Muslims, it is fine. Congress is a party of Muslims, because Muslims are weak and Congress always stands with the weak.”

The BJP got ammunition to target Rahul and Congress party and have come under attack. The BJP is saying that yes this proves that congress is an anti Hindu party.

Anil Baluni Tweeted

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Prime Minister Modi referring to this statement targeted Rahul Gandhi in his West Bengal Rally

 “I have read in newspapers that Congress naamdar has said that the Congress is a party of Muslims,” Modi said. “This debate has been on for the last two days. I am not surprised because during the Manmohan Singh government, the prime minister himself that said that Muslims have the first claim on the country’s resources…”

Shahid Siddiqui was the first to tweet this report from Inquilab Urdu Newspaper

Urdu daily Inqalab has quoted Rahul Gandhi saying “Yes Congress is a Muslim party”. Is the quote correct or party will contradict it? Muslims don’t want a Muslim party, they want a National Secular party, which doesn’t discriminate between citizens. @RahulGandhi @INCIndia

The Inquilab journalist Mumtaz Alam Rizvi, who had first published the story based on the sources, came up with another story next day with an interview of the person who actually attended that meeting verifying his claim

The general feeling among the masses is why Rahul Gandhi and Congress is hell bent on appeasing Muslims? By doing so aren’t they getting themselves distanced from the majority community? There is no rocket science required or you need Political Pundits to explain that Muslims in UP and other states are not going to vote Congress. In UP the Muslim vote is mostly divided among SP and BSP. 

In West Bengal it is Mamata Bannerjee who commands Muslim votes. In south Congress has no presence except for Karnataka. In Karnataka also the base is not that strong that it can sweep the entire seats by appeasing. HD devegauda’s party will come in between now.

By appeasing Muslims is Congress eying the next assembly elections in Rajasthan, MP and Chattisgarh? But the equation is not like UP in these states and the appeasement is not going to help. Then what do Congress do?

The think Tank of Congress should now understand that their recent tactics have fallen flat and they should now come up with some ideas that strike the chord of the general public.

The Public is already annoyed with anti Modi rhetoric of the opposition and now want solutions to the problems which they are highlighting. That is the big flaw in the opposition’s strategy against the government. You highlight the issues but give solutions as well is the need of the hour

Mayawati’s partymen have already declared her as the next PM candidate. Akhilesh Yadav is not willing to give more than 2 seats to congress in UP. For Mamata Rahul Gandhi doesn’t exist and can never be her choice as PM candidate. Sharad Pawar has already shown his inhibitions to accept Rahul as PM. South leaders like KCR and CBN have not opened their cards yet. So what are the options for Congress now? 

How can they prove to the Mahagathwandhan if it happens that they are the ones who can form the government under leadership of Rahul Gandhi

The Mahagathwandhan if happens then the only criteria will be the party with maximum seats will get the PM

Leaders of all the parties shaking hands and sharing the stage to announce their unity is very easy but when it actually comes to forming the Ganthwandhan it will be a hell lot of task for the parties

If we take example of Uttar Pradesh, Akhilesh Yadav, Mayawati are the two main opposition forces who can fight Modi, congress is distant 4^th and will struggle even at Amethi and Rai Bareli. In such a situation Congress will not get enough seats. Mayawati and Akhilesh if really want to become PM have to get maximum seats from UP. Both have to share the maximum number of seats in UP

Mayawati has already hinted that if congress want seat shares in UP, then they have to share their seats in congress dominated states like Punjab, Karnataka or where congress has a good base in states like Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chatisgarh etc.

The congress is at loss in both the arrangements. By removing Digvijay Singh from the CWC congress will again face a wrath of the supporters of Digvijay who still has a good mass base in MP.