Breaking her silence over her son Varun Gandhis alleged hate speech,former Union minister Maneka Gandhi on Thursday attacked the Congress,saying the party was taking up the case to conceal its anti-Sikh acts.
It has become empirical for the Congress to show such tapes of hate speeches to conceal their anti-Sikh acts, Maneka told a regional news channel. It is the Congress which should be ashamed for giving party tickets to people involved in the anti-Sikh riots in which thousands of Sikhs were killed, she added.
Apart from the CD believed to be showing Varun speaking against the Muslim community at a public meeting,another clip was submitted to the Election Commission by the Congress,which allegedly showed him speaking against Sikhs as well.
But Maneka said Varun never spoke against any community. The Election Commission has also dismissed the tape as a fake one and it actually is a fake one because Varun has not spoken anything like that, she said.
I am proud of being a Sikh. Sikhism was founded to defend Hindus and there is hardly any difference between a Sikh and a Hindu, the estranged Nehru-Gandhi family member said.