Owaisi had to say +Not only is Rahul Gandhi ji a Hindu, he is a 'janeu dhari' Hindu. The Congress said there was no such entry and if there were, it was the BJP's doing.The BJP jumped up and down gleefully claiming they'd been saying all along Rahul was "Christian", as BJP MP Subramanian Swamy alleged. "They have been in competition with pseudo-secular parties like the Congress and many others of the same ilk. All of them have been competing with each other to appease the Muslim vote bank for the sake of their politics," said BJP leader GVL Narsimha Rao.Then there's the Congress, which has in the past called Owaisi "anti-national" and akin to the BJP, in that they both play communal politics. "What Owaisi can do for BJP, no one can as they are both flip sides of the coin," said a senior Congress leader some years ago, after Owaisi's MIM made a significant dent in the Congress's seat tally in the Maharashtra Assembly elections.

Source: Times of India November 30, 2017 03:46 UTC