In a sharp attack on student activist Neha Bora, the BJP accused her of slandering the Hindu faith and echoing a Congress “anti-Hindu tirade” after she alleged that women require protection from the “Brahmanical system” and that priests commit rapes inside temples.
BJP national spokesperson Pradeep Bhandari said Neha Bora’s remarks sounded the same as those made by Congress MP Rahul Gandhi and that her statement reflected an ideological campaign against Sanatan dharma
“It’s the same Congress party which has used terms like ‘Hindu terror’. Because they are slandering Sanatan and they are targeting the Hindu faith, which reflects their communal mindset, recall that Neha Bora is inspired by Islamists in Bangladesh and this tells you that the entire Congress ideology and thinking are against the unity and integrity of India. In 2014, Gandhi had reacted to the gang rape of a woman in Delhi with remarks that people who go to temples to worship goddesses also molest women in buses.
BJP national spokesperson Pradeep Bhandari said Bora’s remarks sounded the same as those made by Congress MP Rahul Gandhi and that her statement reflected an ideological campaign against Sanatan dharma. “The comments are inspired by Rahul Gandhi because if you recall Rahul had said that girls are molested inside temples,” Bhandari told NDTV. More recently, Gandhi also clashed with the BJP’s ideological mentor Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) over women’s rights, describing the organisation on social media as an “all-male, anti-constitutional cult”. Bhandari also recalled more political battles over internal security terminology that he said “exposed the Congress party’s anti-Hindu tirade. This further tells you that the DNA of the Congress party is anti-Hindu, anti-Constitution, anti-Sanatan,” Bhandari said.
