All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) president and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi on Sunday slammed Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's Jaipur speech in which Gandhi said India is a country of Hindus and not Hindutvadis.

Rahul Gandhi, in a veiled attack at the BJP government said, "India is a country of Hindus and not Hindutvadis, who want to be in power in any condition".

“This is a country of Hindus, not Hindutvadis. If there is inflation in the country and there is suffering, then this has been done by Hindutvadis. Hindutvadis want power in any condition," Gandhi said.

He targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying his friends have "ruined" the country.

"Modi ji and his three-four industrialist friends ruined the country in seven years," Gandhi alleged.

"Rahul and INC fertilised the ground for Hindutva. Now they are trying to harvest majoritarianism. Bringing Hindus to power is a secular agenda in 2021. Wah! India belongs to all Bharatiyas. Not Hindus alone. India belongs to people of all faiths and also those who have no faith," Owaisi tweeted.

Explaining why he was raking up Hindu-Hindutva, Rahul said, "This country is of Hindus and not of Hindutavadis. Hindus cannot be suppressed, did not happen in 3000 years and will not happen even today. So, Modi ji and his industrialists destroyed this country in 4-5 years, but when Hindu farmers stood in front of Hindutvavadis, PM Modi apologised".

"He apologised, but when farmers asked compensation, he refused it. In parliament, the Centre said it had no record of the martyrs. I showed a list of 500 farmers from Punjab and 70 names from Haryana and demanded that they compensate them. But PM Modi refused. Do not fear, we will never lose", Gandhi added.

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