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Only Congress can fight ideology of hate with that of love: Rahul

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New Delhi:The Congress accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of sprea-ding the “poison” of communalism and asked party men to fight those out to demolish Jawaharlal Nehru’s “liberal India”, intensifying the battle over his legacy.
While both the Con-gress President Sonia Gandhi and Vice President Rahul Gandhi did not take the name of Modi, the refe-rence was obvious when they spoke at a party function on the eve of the 125th birth anniversary of Nehru here. Rahul Gandhi said that “angry” people are nowadays running the country and had a dig at Modi over the “Swachchta Abhiyan” saying “photo opportunities” are galore.
“These days, the foundation of love and bro-therhood is being demo-lished. On one hand houses are being painted and roads are being cleaned.
On the other hand, poison is being spread. The very foundations are being weakened,” Gandhi said. In her speech made in the presence of former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and former CM Shiela Dikshit, Sonia Gandhi asked party men to be united and strengthen the organisations and connect and fight those forces out to demolish Nehru’s vision of a liberal India.
“Massive attempts are on to destroy the vision of Nehru,The forces, which are doing this are targeting not only his persona but also his ideology, his vision, his life-long contributions and struggle,” she said. The  President said that had Nehru been alive, he would have asked all Congressmen to fight communalism of all hues by becoming a “valiant secular soldier”.
It has organised an international meet on November 17 and 18 for which it has not invited Modi, who it accuses of appropriating the legacy of freedom movement leaders like M Gandhi, Nehru and Sardar Patel. Sonia Gandhi has extended invita-tions personally to leaders including Nitish Kumar and Mamata Banerjee.(PTI)

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