Manohar Parrikar, RSS want to teach everyone a lesson: Rahul Gandhi

NEW DELHI: Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi took on Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar for his comment on Aamir Khan, saying “hate is the preserve of the coward and it never wins”. Tweeting from his account OfficeOfRG, Rahul said “RSS & Parrikarji want to teach everyone a lesson. Here’s a lesson for you: hate is the preserve of the coward and it never wins.

Senior party leader Randeep Singh Surjewala tweeted: “Shameful that @manoharparrikar threatens ‘teaching a lesson’ to ‘actors’, instead of training his guns elsewhere.” He said it was a “shocking revelation” by Parrikar and showed that BJP and RSS supporters actively disrupted and sabotaged an online trading company on Aamir Khan issue. “Scandalous,” he tweeted questioning whether Parrikar’s job is to protect India from external aggressors like Pakistan or threaten fellow countrymen. “@manoharparrikar’s statement proves a concerted conspiracy to curb all dissent, hound Dalits & Minorities. Can this be the ‘ Raj Dharma’?,” he tweeted.

Parrikar had reportedly said yesterady anyone speaking against the country must be “taught a lesson” and had referred to anti-national sloganeering at JNU earlier this year and remarks by an “actor” who “had said that his wife wants to live out of India”.

Khan had last year spoken about a “sense of insecurity” resulting from intolerance, and mentioned his wife’s fear about the future of their child in India.