New Delhi: The Gandhis and other party leaders pleaded with the President that as head of the nation, he should ensure an end to the atmosphere of intolerance, intemperate behaviour, violence and communal polarisation, as per media reports. Members of the Congress Working Committee, AICC General Secretaries and office-bearers and party MPs were part of the delegation who met the President.
The move by the main Opposition party came in the backdrop of protests by artistes, writers and scientists over alleged “rising intolerance” reflected in the Dadri lynching, beef row and other such incidents.
Congress chief Sonia Gandhi had met the President in this regard yesterday. The duo were in talks for about half-an-hour during which they are understood to have discussed the current political situation. Congress sources had, however, described it as a courtesy call.
Meanwhile, BJP and Congress had on Monday locked horns over the issue of intolerance in the society, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi saying the Congress president had no moral right to lecture the NDA on tolerance and it should “hang its head in shame” for the 1984 anti-Sikh riots where thousands were massacred.
Congress had hit back, contending like in 2002 post-Godhra violence, Modi has “forgotten Rajdharma” in 2015 too as he was an “endorser of intolerance by his studied silence” over acts of hate and violence.
Bureau Report
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