Congress has become 'Muslim-Maoist Party': Giriraj Singh

BEGUSARAI: Union Minister and veteran Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Giriraj Singh on Friday lashed out at Lok Sabha Leader of Opposition (LoP) Rahul Gandhi, saying the Congress should be renamed as "Muslim-Maoist Party" as Singh claimed that majority of its winning candidates in the Assam Assembly polls are Muslims.

"Since Rahul Gandhi came to power, the Congress party is no longer the same; it has become a Maoist-Muslim Congress," the Union Minister told reporters in Bihar's Begusarai.

He added: "I challenge him to show whether or not 98 per cent of Congress' winning candidates in Assam are Muslim."

"Now the party's name should be changed to Maoist-Muslim Congress," he reiterated.

Moreover, the Union Minister accused LoP Gandhi of being "Urban Naxal".

Giriraj Singh said: "Muslims are everything for them (Congress). They (Congress) abuse people who follow 'Sanatan' and even obstructed the Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam."

Referring to the AIMIM President Asaduddin Owaisi, Union Minister Singh said: "Now (Asaduddin) Owaisi can abandon his party, it is no longer needed because his party been replaced with Congress by Rahul Gandhi."