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Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad has dismissed as ‘factually wrong and an exaggeration’ the comparison of Hindutva with the jihadist Islam of terrorist groups such as ISIS and Boko Haram in party colleague Salman Khurshid’s latest book which has created a political furore.
Azad, a former leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha and a member of the group of 23 leaders that wrote to party chief Sonia Gandhi seeking organisational overhaul, tweeted, “In Mr Salman Khursheed’s new book, we may not agree with Hindutva as a political ideology distinct from composite culture of Hinduism, but comparing Hindutva with ISIS and Jihadist Islam is factually wrong and an exaggeration.”
In Mr. Salman Khursheed’s new book, we may not agree with Hindutva as a political ideology distinct from composite culture of Hinduism, but comparing Hindutva with ISIS and Jihadist Islam is factually wrong and an exaggeration.
— Ghulam Nabi Azad (@ghulamnazad) November 11, 2021
The book by former Union minister Khurshid on the Ayodhya verdict, titled Sunrise Over Ayodhya: Nationhood in Our Times, was released recently.
