INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
The Congress wants to contest the 2019 elections on religious lines, senior BJP leader Nirmala Sitharaman said on Friday, launching a sharp
attack at Congress president Rahul Gandhi, for what she called, was a concerted attack to divide people on communal lines.Citing a report in
a vernacular newspaper on Mr Gandhi's recent interaction with Muslim intellectuals, Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said Mr Gandhi had
been reported to have said that the Congress was a Muslim party."You can't be Janeu-Dhari (a Hindu who wears the brahminical thread) at one
point Muslim-dhari at another This is playing with the people's trust," Ms Sitharaman said at a media briefing, a reference to the Congress'
defence of Mr Gandhi's temple run ahead of assembly elections in Gujarat.
