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“Calling the entire Opposition animals…see according to Amit Shah and the basic vision of the BJP, RSS – there are only two non-animals in this country. There is Mr Narendra Modi and there is Mr Amit Shah,” Rahul told reporters here.
“Everybody else as far as they are concerned are animals. That’s fine, that is the way they look at the world. It is a disrespectful statement, but we don’t take what Mr Amit Shah says with too much seriousness,” he said.
Taking a swipe at Shah, the Congress chief said it was the mentality that there were only two or three people in this country “who are worth anything, who understand everything and everybody else is a worthless person”.
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At a rally in Mumbai to mark the BJP’s foundation day on Friday, Shah had equated Opposition parties to ‘snakes’ and mongoose’ and ‘dogs’ and ‘cats’, who are seeking to unite despite their inherent differences to take on the BJP in next year’s Lok Sabha polls.
Later, Shah said his intention was not to equate Opposition parties with animals.