During the Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting on Thursday, Sonia Gandhi blasted the ruling BJP saying the party is busy spreading the virus of communal hatred and prejudice during a crisis as grave as the coronavirus pandemic.

Sonia Gandhi accused the BJP of spreading communal hatred in the country and also said that "grave damage" is being done to social harmony by the Bharatiya Janata Party.

Addressing a meeting of the CWC, Sonia Gandhi said this should worry every Indian and the Congress will have to work hard to repair this damage.

"Let me also share with you something that should worry each and every one as Indians. When we should be tackling the coronavirus unitedly, the BJP continues to spread the virus of communal prejudice and hatred," Sonia Gandhi said.

"Grave damage is being done to our social harmony. Our party, we will have to work hard to repair that damage," she added.

Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, former Congress president Rahul Gandhi and top Congress leaders attended the meeting through video conference.

This is the second time, the CWC, the Congress' top decision-making body, is meeting in the past three weeks.

Manmohan Singh said the success of the lockdown will be judged later on how the Covid-19 pandemic is handled by the government.

The top leaders of Congress, including Sonia Gandhi, repeated their earlier complaints of the Centre not doing enough testing to detect coronavirus cases. She also slammed the government on the poor quality of PPE kits and their shortage.