NEW DELHI: BJP on Tuesday dubbed Congress president Rahul Gandhi ’s tweet a “confession” of his reported remark that his party was for Muslims.

“We have read Rahul Gandhi’s tweet a hundred times in two hours to find out if he denies making the ‘Muslim party’ remark but we could not see a negation of what he had said,” BJP spokesman Sambit Patra told reporters.

The saffron party has attacked Rahul for his purported statement with PM Narendra Modi and his senior colleagues repeatedly referring to it in their speeches.

“Congress leaked it to the media that Rahul will hold a meeting with Muslim intellectuals. The next day, an Urdu daily reported Rahul told the intellectuals Congress was a party for Muslims. It’s a conspiracy to promote appeasement politics,” Patra said.

“You (Rahul) say you are with the last person in the queue, which is the ideology of Deen Dayal Upadhyay, but Congress for so many years was not with this last person. Now, the last person is also not with you,” he said.

“There is a sense of competition between Rahul Gandhi and Asaduddin Owaisi as to who will usurp the ideology of Jinnah to a complete extent,” he added.

