Congress calls BJP's Run For Unity 'hypocrisy' in the backdrop of 'rising intolerance'

Congress on Saturday scoffed at what it called BJP’s attempts to appropriate the legacy of its leader Sardar Patel, demanding that the government release the communique “banning” the RSS by the first Home Minister after the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi. New Delhi: Congress on Saturday scoffed at what it called BJP’s attempts to appropriate the legacy of its leader Sardar Patel, demanding that the government release the communique “banning” the RSS by the first Home Minister after the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi. Party’s senior spokesman Anand Sharma also dismissed the “run for unity” organised by BJP-led government on the occasion of 140th birth anniversary of Sardar Patel, calling it “hypocrisy” against the backdrop of protests by artistes, writers and scientists over alleged “rising intolerance” after the Dadri lynching, beef row and other incidents. The Congress leader said that the Prime Minister has shown his “petty mind” by not remembering Indira Gandhi on her death anniversary Sharma downplayed Union Minister M Venkaiah Naidu’s remarks that had Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel been the first Prime Minister of India things would have been different.