Congress continues its attack on Modi
New Delhi (PTI): Unrelenting in its attack on Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in the run-up to state assembly elections there, the Congress on Sunday said that he deserved to be "tried and convicted" not only by Indian courts but also by the international justice system.
"He is a violator of global human rights," AICC spokesperson A M Singhvi told PTI.
He was reacting to the BJP's counter attack on Congress President Sonia Gandhi's election rally in Gujarat, where she had termed Modi as a "merchant of death".
For such people "merchant of death" is not only appropriate but is in fact "mild", Singhvi said.
Yesterday, Gandhi had made remarks that the Gujarat government was being run by "peddlers of death".
She made the comments during an election rally in the state.
Strongly objecting to Gandhi's remarks against Modi, the BJP today said he was "a nationalist fighting anti-national forces".
"Narendra Modi is a 'Yamraj' (Lord of Death) for terrorists and all other anti-national elements and 'Yuvraj' (prince) of nationalism," BJP vice-president Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said.
"Congress is linking fight against terrorism to religion. It is soft on terrorism because of its vote-bank politics," he added.
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