Congress playing vote-bank politics: Murli Manohar Joshi

NEW DELHI: Just as VHP is all set to make 'issues concerning Hindus' its focus at the Mahakumbh mela, BJP on Tuesday mounted pressure on Congress over Shinde's Hindu terror remarks saying it was mulling over its strategy whether to boycott him in Parliament. BJP fielded senior party leader Murli Manohar Joshi to unleash a scathing attack on Shinde and counter his statement at the party's Chintan Shivir that BJP and RSS were promoting Hindu terror. "This was Congress' well thought-out diversionary tactic to deflect attention from mis-governance.

We will raise the issue of communal appeasement... Why are you playing this game? For vote bank politics?" Joshi said at a press conference. The principal opposition party has decided to boycott meetings convened or presided over by Shinde, who was leader of House. However, when asked if the party will boycott him in the House like it did in the case of P Chidambaram, Joshi said the party was contemplating its strategy. "It is one of the options," he said adding that Congress will have to pay for Shinde's remarks outside and inside Parliament. Joshi, however, addressed Jamaat ud Dawa (JuD) chief as 'shri Hafiz Sayeed'.