“Muslim League is Secular Party”: Rahul Gandhi

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi termed its ally in Kerala, the ‘Muslim League as a “completely secular party”, during a press meet at the National Press Club in Washington DC on Thursday.

Answering to a question on the Congress’s alliance with Muslim League in Kerala, Rahul Gandhi said, “Muslim League is a completely secular party, there is nothing non-secular about them. I think the person (reporter) hasn’t studied the Muslim League.”

The Congress leader was confident that a grand Opposition alliance against the BJP at the Centre will happen.

As part of his visit to the US, the Congress leader will visit San Francisco, Washington DC and New York.

The BJP attacked Gandhi for his remark related to the Muslim League. Congress leader Pawan Khera reacted sharply to the BJP’s charges by saying, “Don’t know the difference between Kerala’s Muslim League and Jinnah’s Muslim League? Jinnah’s Muslim League is the one with which your forefathers allied. The second Muslim League is the one with which the BJP had an alliance.”

According to some historians, the RSS sided with the Muslim League to remain out of civil disobedience movements and both were allies in propagating the two-nation theory. Khera also commented on BJP roping in two IUML corporators to retain control of the the Nagpur Municipal Corporation in 2012.