"Nafrat Ki Bazaar Mein...": Rahul Gandhi's "Mohabbat" Message For Danish Ali
NDTV
Shortly before the Congress leaders' visit, a tearful Mr Ali told NDTV he had been unable to sleep the night and is on the verge of a breakdown after being targeted by the BJP member.
Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and KC Venugopal met Bahujan Samaj Party MP Kunwar Danish Ali - who had Islamophobic slurs hurled at him by BJP MP Ramesh Bidhuri last evening, during a Rajya Sabha discussion on the "success of Chandrayaan-3" - at his home in Delhi on Friday night. नफ़रत के बाज़ार में मोहब्बत की दुकान pic.twitter.com/3IqLMFU0dx
Mr Gandhi posted a photograph of him hugging Mr Ali on X (formerly Twitter) and wrote, "Nafrat ki bazaar mein, mohabbat ki dukkan (In this marketplace of hatred, there is a shop of love)."
The comment was a reference to a slogan used during the Bharat Jodo Yatra, when he said wanted to open a "mohabbat ki dukkan", or "shop of love", in the "market of hatred" spawned by the Bharatiya Janata Party.