BJP's 'Muslim League-Maoist Congress' swipe after ex-VP Hamid Ansari cites Nehru

NEW DELHI: BJP MP and national spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi on Monday hit out at former vice-president Hamid Ansari over his recent remarks on Hindu nationalism, accusing the Congress of having moved towards the “ultra-Left” and saying Ansari had exposed what the party had become.Trivedi was reacting to Ansari’s reference to former prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru’s view that the “real danger to India was not communism, but Hindu right-wing communalism”.Trivedi said, “...Former Vice President Hamid Ansari quoted a book which was written in 2019. As per the book, Nehru ji is saying that for him, Communism is not a threat as big as Hindu nationalism. For this, I would like to congratulate Hamid Ansari. He did three really important works: 1) He has thoroughly exposed that the Congress has become Muslim League Maoist Congress in totality, 2) He quoted that, as per Nehru ji, Communism was indeed a threat.