‘Line becomes clearer’: Cong leader raises ‘distinction’ between North and South after Telangana victory; Deletes message after row
Congress leader Praveen Chakravarty noted that the border between the south and north is becoming “thicker and clearer” as the BJP scores huge victories in three core Hindi states.
2023 election meeting results: A senior Congress leader sparked a row on Sunday by claiming a so-called ‘distinction’ between the country’s southern and northern states as the party dethroned the ruling BRS in Telangana to register a second victory in southern India, where a victory remains elusive. for the BJP.
In a post that he later deleted, Congress leader Praveen Chakravarty noted that the border between the south and the north is becoming “thicker and clearer” as the BJP scores huge victories in three core Hindi states.
“The south-north border is becoming thicker and clearer!” Chakravarty, chairman of the Professionals’ Congress and the party’s data analytics wing, posted a photo on X with the caption ‘South versus North’.
However, Chakravarty later deleted the post after it sparked a controversy and drew sharp reactions from various quarters, with BJP leaders accusing the Congress of promoting divisive politics.
Congress leader Praveen Chakravarty on Sunday sparked a controversy with his remarks that the south-north boundary line is becoming “thicker and clearer” as the party trailed the BRS in Telangana to register a second victory in the southern region where the BJP is not is in. power in one state.
The Congress is facing heavy defeats in three Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh at the hands of the BJP. However, for the first time since the state’s formation in 2014, the Congress has ousted the ruling Bharath Rashtra Samithi (BRS) from Telangana and will form a government in the state with a clear majority.
Between November 7 and 30, all four states went to the polls and votes were counted on Sunday.
Place spark row on X
Congress sympathizer Tehseen Poonawala warned against reports like Chakravarty’s and said that “just as people did not like the misuse of Sanatan Dharma, they will not tolerate the north-south divide”.
“Warning: The North-South Divide Will Backfire! Don’t surrender to it and diminish the legacy of Congress, the first nationalist and oldest political party of this great nation! Just as people did not like the abuse of Sanatan dharma, they will not tolerate the North-South divide!”, Poonawala wrote on X.
BJP general secretary BL Santhosh tagged Chakravarty’s post and said, “Already sir!!! They always keep two cards ready. Now they have taken the second card from the parlor of ‘Bharat Jodo’ and ‘Mohabbat Ki Dukaan’”.
Santhosh also shared a screenshot of Chakravarty’s post on X.
Kerala BJP President K Surendran said on
“Ironically, these are the same people behind ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’. @BJP4India’s southern strength is clear: rule in Goa, Puducherry; strong in Karnataka; rising in Telangana; with the key of Lok Sabha seats. The BJP will win more seats in 2024, including in Kerala,” he said.
CR Kesavan, the great-grandson of noted freedom fighter and India’s last Governor General C Rajagopalachari, who left the Congress to join the BJP earlier this year, said the Congress’s “poisonous plan is to attack Bharat with a north-south divide”.
“The agenda of the dynastic Congress Party to divide Bharat along caste lines and uproot the Sanatana dharma has been roundly rejected by our people. Now their poisonous plan is to attack Bharat with a north-south divide. In 2024, the Congress will be consigned to the dustbin of history,” the Tamil Nadu leader said.
Meanwhile, a similar message from Tamil Nadu Congress MP Karti Chidambaram on X read: “the South”.
Earlier this year, the Congress wrested power from the BJP in Karnataka. With the victory in Telangana, it has strengthened its base in the south. The Congress works with the ruling DMK in Tamil Nadu, but is not part of the government there.
After losing Karnataka, the BJP is currently not in power in any of the southern states.