New Delhi: BJP today hit out at Samajwadi Party for claiming that no riot victim was left in Muzaffarnagar relief camps, saying it showed the “mentality” of the party's leaders who accuse it of being communal.
The saffron party also attacked Congress for indulging in “secular tourism” in riot-hit areas of Uttar Pradesh.
BJP vice president Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi criticised SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav for his remark that no riot victim was left in relief camps and Congress and BJP workers were staying there as part of a conspiracy to tarnish the SP government's image in UP.
“The SP government says the affected are not riot victims but are of a political party. Then you (SP) should identify them. This is a tamasha (drama) of playing with the sentiments of the dead and accusing BJP of doing so,” Naqvi told reporters here.
“SP, in the name of secularism, is playing politics. Instead of applying balm on the wounds of the affected, they are hurting them by pricking needles on their wounds. This shows their mentality,” he said.
