'India a country of Hindus…': From Manmohan to Rahul, how Congress is changing its stance

With the BJP seemingly winning the Hindu narrative, the Congress is attempting to differentiate between the words – Hindu, Hinduism and Hindutva. And, now Rahul Gandhi has said India belongs to Hindus.

At a Congress rally to protest rising prices in Jaipur on Sunday, the party’s top leader Rahul Gandhi said : “This [India] is a country of Hindus and not Hindutvavadis.”

This could be the first endorsement by Rahul Gandhi that India belongs to Hindus, while expanding the umbrella of the word ‘Hindu’.