Mumbai, November 10: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge today said that the only danger to India was from the RSS and the BJP, who were trying to divide people and start talking about dividing and killing people from morning itself.

Lashing out at the BJP leaders for raising the bogey of ‘batenge to katenge’, Kharge said, the country was already united and not divided. He said, only the BJP and the RSS were trying to divide the people. He alleged, the RSS people start talking about dividing and lynching people from early in the morning.

He said that the BJP and the RSS had already created divisions in the society through their ideology and by following the Manusmriti, which discriminated between people.

The Congress president expressed relief that the Modi government become a lame government as the BJP did not get ‘400 plus’ seats. He added that it is now dependent on two crutches of Nitish Kumar and Chandrababu Naidu.

He said, earlier this government would not engage in debates and discussions.

Talking about the healthy relations earlier between the leaders of ruling party and Opposition, Kharge recalled the former Prime Minister and BJP leader Atal Bihari Vajpayee. He said Vajpayee even described Indira Gandhi as Durga when she liberated Bangladesh. He said, he also praised Pandit Nehru and he (Nehru) also praised him.

The Congress president accused Prime Minister Modi of misusing the ED, the CBI, the CVC and other institutions to intimidate political opponents wherever the BJP felt that BJP was not winning.

But, he asked Modi as to how long he can intimidate his opponents and how many leaders he can put behind bars. He asserted that the opposition was united and it will not be threatened and intimidated, come what may.

Without taking his name, Kharge took a dig at Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, saying there was a Chief Minister, who wears saffron robes, instead of white, and uses the expression ‘batenge toh katenge” to divide people.

Praising the country’s democracy, Kharge pointed out, while India elected a woman Prime Minister Indira Gandhi long back and also a woman president from Maharashtra, the United States, despite its claims of being a progressive country had still not elected a woman as President.

He said, credit for establishing such a modern and progressive democracy in the country goes to the Congress and its leaders who laid down strong democratic foundations for the country.