BJP spreading communal poison: Manish Tiwari

New Delhi - Slamming the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for criticising and opposing the proposal to raise reservation for Muslims in the polls-bound Uttar Pradesh, Congress spokesperson Manish Tiwari has termed the contention of former, as one of spreading communal poison, raking up the issue in a wrong context.
 
Venting ire against BJP, Tiwari said that BJP had erred saying the proposed reservation amounts to partition whereas recently in Karnataka which is ruled by a BJP government, certain persons of a saffron outfit had hoisted a Pakistan flag atop a Tehsil (block) office.
 
"It is indeed ironical as to who is talking about a second partition. People who have been culpable for injecting poison, communal poison into the body politic, whose alleged track record with regard to an incident in Karnataka. I have just alluded to an articulated at length. When they start accusing the Congress party except for saying that it is deplorable, condemnable that even the forte or the physiology of the second partition can enter the political discourse, I would not like to diminish myself by reacting," Tiwari told the media here on Wednesday.
 
Tiwari further said that BJP leaders should first do introspection before levelling allegations against Congress.
 

He also questioned them as to what they had done in augmenting the communalism in the country.
 
"Before levelling allegations on Congress, the BJP leaders should first see into their own collars that since 1947 to 2011 as to what they have done to augment the communalism in the country. I just don't want to get into the details. Other wise, if I take question one by one, then BJP and its spokesperson don't have the answers for these posers," added Tiwari.
 
On Monday, Khurshid had promised to raise reservation as against the existing quota of 4.5 percent reserved for groups bracketed under other backward classes, if his party is elected to Uttar Pradesh assembly elections.