Bharatiya Janata Party national spokesperson Shahzad Poonawalla on Wednesday slammed the opposition Congress after a purported video of its Assam leader Bidhu Bhushan Das singing the Bangladeshi national anthem went viral on social media.
Addressing a press conference in Delhi, Poonawalla accused the Congress party of being an admirer of Bangladesh.
“Singing Bangladesh’s national anthem from a Congress stage in Assam is the latest proof of this,” he said.
He added Congress and its leaders have long supported Bangladeshi infiltrators, endangering the nation’s unity and security. The BJP leader also linked the Congress and its INDIA bloc ally TMC’s opposition to the SIR exercise to their alleged vote bank politics.
“The INDI Alliance has become a symbol of hypocrisy—professing loyalty to the Constitution while pursuing vote-bank politics, with numerous instances already revealing this contradiction,” Poonawalla said.
The Congress party has consistently supported Bangladeshi infiltrators over the years, with the UPA era witnessing systematic settlement of crores of illegal immigrants, he charged.
“From Sam Pitroda to Syeda Hameed and Ghulam Mir, statements were made in support of Bangladeshi infiltrators, on which the BJP held a press conference. And now, the Congress party has officially demonstrated its allegiance by having its senior leaders sing the Bangladeshi national anthem at a party platform in Assam,” he added.
His remarks came after a video surfaced of Congress leader Bidhu Bhushan Das singing Rabindranath Tagore’s Amar Sonar Bangla, a song that was later adopted by Bangladesh as its national anthem.
After the BJP raised objections over it, the Congress leader clarified that he was only singing it as a song written by Tagore and didn’t know if it was the national anthem of Bangladesh.