Union minister Uma Bharti (TOI file photo)

BHOPAL: BJP firebrand leader and union minister Uma Bharati on Sunday attacked Congress president Rahul Gandhi over his controversial statements comparing RSS to the Muslim Brotherhood and that Congress was not involved in 1984 anti-Sikh riots . Bharati said Rahul is 'mentally ill' and even his fellow party leaders were stunned over his bizarre remarks.

"What Rahul speaks about and what he does is seen by all in Parliament. But what he had stated in London stunned his fellow Congressmen too. Rahul's statement that Congress was not involved in 1984 anti-Sikh riots was a blatant lie as all cases related to the riots were filed against Congress leaders. Rahul is mentally ill and I pray to god for the recovery of his mental health," Bharati said while talking to reporters in Sehore.

The former chief minister of the state had gone to visit the famous Ganesh temple in Sehore on Raksha Bandhan when she was asked about Rahul's remarks during his London visit. The Congress president had attacked BJP's frontal organisation RSS saying that Sangh was trying to change the nature of India like the idea that exists in the Arab work of the Muslim Brotherhood, that one ideology should run through every institution.

Rahul had also ruled out involvement of Congress in anti-Sikh riots in India that followed the assassination of the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1984. Rahul told an audience of UK-based parliamentarians and local leaders that the riot was a tragedy but, his disregard with the view that Congress was involved.

Bharati said Rahul being a leader of a national political party poses threat for his own party's existence. "Congress has a vast background since the era of stalwarts like Motilal Nehru, Jawaharlal, Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi. But today a person who is mentally unstable is running the party," she said.

He did not even know what actually had happened in 1984. A person who was not aware what and where he should speak is not mentally healthy, reiterated Bharati.

Replying to a question whether she would campaign for the BJP during assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh, Bharati said that she did not quit BJP but, she was expelled from the party. "I have full sympathy with the BJP and what party would instruct, I will follow the same".

