Thrissur: BJP on Tuesday attacked Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, calling him a “migrant leader” who has taken “shelter” in Kerala after being rejected by people of Amethi, once a stronghold of his family. Targeting Gandhi, who represents Kerala’s Wayanad seat in Lok Sabha, on the Sabarimala women entry issue, senior BJP leader and Union Minister Pralhad Joshi claimed that the national leadership and state leadership of the Congress have taken two different stands on the matter.
He urged Gandhi to clear his position on the issue of faith.
In a bid to woo Christian votes in the state, Joshi, who is the party’s election incharge for Kerala, also cited the “appeasement of Islamist fundamentalists” by the Congress and ruling Left in the state while raking up the issue of conversion of the Hagia Sophia church into a mosque in Turkey.
In this context, he cited the statement of a leader of Muslim League, a key Congress ally, reportedly favouring the Turkish President Erdogan’s…