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Summary India's ruling Congress party on Saturday slammed Bharatiya Janata Party for denying revelations
Indias ruling Congress party on Saturday slammed the main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for denying the fresh revelations by Wikileaks that one of their leaders said that Hindu nationalism was an opportunistic issue for the party.The latest Wikileaks expose published by a national newspaper said BJP leader Arun Jaitley in May 2005 spoke to an American diplomat and expressed his view saying Hindu nationalism was an opportunistic issue for the party.Speaking to reporters in New Delhi, Shakeel Ahmed, spokesperson of Indias ruling Congress party said parties like BJP and Hindu ideologue Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (National Volunteers Corps) have always used religion for their own selfish means.Ahmed also said BJP and RSS have again proved that they make comments to suit their needs. BJP spokesperson Prakash Javadekar said the party only disagreed to the word opportunistic being used and that the party did not take an opportunistic stand. BJP had been demanding the Congress party to clarify its stand on the cash-for-vote scandal, wherein the federal government was accused of buying lawmakers in 2004 to win their confidence in the Indo-U.S nuclear deal, as revealed by Wikileaks. But the Congress, siting an Indian magazine, said, the cash-for-scam was engineered by the BJP in collusion with a television news channel.
