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Bhubaneswar, Oct 30 (IANS) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP and party national spokesperson Sambit Patra on Thursday criticized the Congress over media reports regarding senior Congress leader Vidhu Bhushan Das singing the national anthem of Bangladesh, Amar Sonar Bangla, during a party meeting in Assam’s Sribhoomi district recently.
Addressing a press conference in Bhubaneswar, BJP leader Patra expressed surprise that the senior Congress leader started the party’s Seva Dal meeting at Shribhoomi on October 27 by singing the national anthem of Bangladesh.
He alleged that this reflected the appeasement politics of the Congress party and its desperation to promote illegal infiltrators for vote bank politics.
He also clarified that the BJP has no problem with the national anthem of Bangladesh, which was written by poet Rabindranath Tagore.
BJP leader Patra said, “Rabindranath Tagore is a great personality and Nobel laureate, who composed the national anthems of both India and Bangladesh, which is a matter of pride for every Indian. But the question here is not about Tagore – it is about the appeasement politics of the Congress party and how the Congress party constantly pursues appeasement policy to give legitimacy to infiltrators. Singing the national anthem of Bangladesh at a Congress meeting in India is an insult to our national pride.”
The sole purpose behind singing the national anthem of Bangladesh in the Congress party meeting is to try to create a vote bank for the party by appeasing the infiltrators who have come from Assam or other parts of the country.
BJP leader Patra also alleged that Congress leaders, including those who previously held important positions in the party, were part of the meeting and supported the act.
“This is another example of how the Congress is trying to appease infiltrators and minorities for political gains and that is why the party is opposing the SIR,” he said, demanding that top Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi clarify the party’s stand on the issue.
–IANS
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