Politics - BJP spreading virus of communal prejudice, hatred in country: Sonia Gandhi

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Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Thursday accused the BJP of spreading the virus of communal prejudice and hatred in the country, asserting that "grave damage" is being done to social harmony.

 Addressing a meeting of the Congress Working C

ommittee, Gandhi said it should worry every Indian and her party will have to work hard to repair this damage.

 "Let me also share with you something that should worry each and every one of us as Indians. When we should be tackling the coronavirus unitedly, the BJP continues to spread the virus of communal prejudice and hatred," she said.

 "Grave damage is being done to our social harmony. Our party, we will have to work hard to repair that damage," the Congress president added.

 Former prime minister Manmohan Singh, former Congress president Rahul Gandhi and top Congress leaders attended the meeting through video conference.

 Read our coronavirus live blog for all the latest news and updates. This is the second time the CWC, the Congress' top decision-making body, is meeting through video-conferencing in the past three weeks ever since the lockdown was enforced to contain the coronavirus threat.

 The Congress president said the coronavirus pandemic has increased disturbingly in the past three weeks and called upon the government to increase testing for it.

 Gandhi said she has written several times to the prime minister since the lockdown was enforced and suggested several measures and constructive cooperation.

 "Unfortunately, they have been acted upon only partially and in a miserly way. The compassion, large-heartedness and alacrity that should be forthcoming from the central government is conspicuous by its absence," she said. The Congress chief said the focus of the party must continue to be on successfully engaging with health, food security and livelihood issues.

 She claimed that around 12 crore people have lost jobs in the first phase of the lockdown and urged the government to provide a relief package for the MSME sector, which accounts for one-third of the GDP.

 Gandhi called upon the government to provide food and financial security to migrants and jobless stranded at various places and were desperate to reach back home.

 by Al- Helalee

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