The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has come down heavily on Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for his controversial remark when Rahul Gandhi said that the opposition party is fighting not only against the BJP but also against the state of India. Gandhi's comments have sparked a political firestorm, with the Union Health Minister and BJP President JP Nadda saying that the "ugly truth" of the Congress is now exposed.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman questioned why Mr Gandhi carried a copy of the Constitution if he felt the opposition was fighting against the state.

Addressing a rally at the inauguration of the new Congress headquarters in Delhi, Gandhi sharply criticised the BJP and its ideological parent, the RSS. "Our ideology, like the RSS ideology, is thousands of years old, and it has been fighting the RSS ideology for thousands of years. Do not think that we are fighting a fair fight. There is no fairness in this. If you believe that we are fighting a political organisation called the BJP or RSS, you have not understood what is going on. The BJP and the RSS have captured every single institution of our country. We are now fighting the BJP, the RSS and the Indian State itself," he expressed.

This comment drew a strong response from the BJP chief. "Hidden no more, Congress' ugly truth now stands exposed by their own leader. I 'compliment' Mr Rahul Gandhi for saying clearly what the nation knows- that he is fighting the Indian state," he posted on X.

"It is not a secret that Mr Gandhi and his ecosystem have close links with Urban Naxals and the Deep State who want to defame, demean and discredit India. His repeated actions have also strengthened this belief. Everything he has done or said has been in the direction of breaking India and dividing our society,"  Nadda counted.

"Congress has a history of encouraging all those forces who want a weak India. Their greed for power meant compromising the nation's integrity and betraying the trust of the people. But the people of India are wise. They have decided that they will always reject Mr. Rahul Gandhi and his rotten ideology," the BJP President stated. 

Finance Minister Sitharaman expressed that the opposition leader who pledged on the Constitution is saying he is fighting against the Indian state. Mr Gandhi also indiscriminately attacked RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat for his comments that India gained "real independence" after the establishment of the Ram temple in Ayodhya. He said the RSS chief's comments were "treasonous" and if he were in any other country, he would be arrested and tried.

"Mohan Bhagwat has the guts to tell the nation every two or three days his views on the freedom movement, his views on the Constitution. What he said yesterday is treason because it is saying that the Constitution is illegal, it is saying that everything that was done to fight the British is illegal, and he has the guts to say this publicly," Rahul Gandhi said by adding, "In any other country, he would be arrested and tried."

"It is an insult to every Indian to say that India did not get independence in 1947, and it is high time we stopped listening to this nonsense that these people think they can just parrot, shout and shout," said the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha.