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Thankfully Chhota Rajan&Anup Chetia(ULFA) are not Muslims. Had they been Muslims Modi govt would have a different narrative altogether. — Shakeel Ahmad (@Ahmad_Shakeel) November 18, 2015

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NEW DELHI: Senior Congress leader Shakeel Ahmad was in the news today for his controversial tweet on Chhota Rajan and Ulfa leader Anup Chetia."Thankfully Chhota Rajan&Anup Chetia(ULFA) are not Muslims. Had they been Muslims Modi govt would have a different narrative altogether," Ahmad said in a tweet, which sparked outrage across the BJP.As his remarks raked up a row, Ahmad clarified saying he was simply trying to expose the "double standards and double speak" of the BJP and Modi government on the issue of terror. "Had they been Muslims, the BJP would have said that Congress government or UPA government did not arrest them and did not bring them back to the country simply because they were Muslims. They would have said that the Congress and UPA were thus trying to do vote-bank politics. That is why I said that," Ahmad said.BJP leaders were, however, upset.BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra said Ahmad made a "very appalling and shameless comment" and tried to discriminate among even terrorists on religious lines. "Shakeel Ahmad, who is a tall leader of Congress, has made a very appalling comment. It's a shameless comment. Congress has divided the society for petty political gains on the lines of Hindus and Muslims," Patra said."It has created vote banks in the society and today they are trying to differentiate between even terrorists in the name of religion. They are discriminating between Hindu terrorists and Muslim terrorists. What kind of a statement by Ahmad is this," he asked.Just a few days ago, two others Congress leaders Mani Shankar Aiyar and Salman Khurshid were lambasted for their remarks in Pakistan on Prime Minister Modi.While accepting that "terror of course has no religion", Ahmad recalled that an NDA leader, who is now a minister, had sometime ago said in Parliament that all Muslims are not terrorists but all terrorists are Muslims."It is very unfortunate. That is why I was simply trying to expose the double standards of Modi and BJP," he reasoned.