{"id":9979,"date":"2026-04-07T22:05:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T22:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/?p=9979"},"modified":"2026-04-07T22:05:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T22:05:43","slug":"130097210-cms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/?p=9979","title":{"rendered":"Amit Shah slams Mallikarjun Kharge for likening BJP-RSS to &#8216;snake&#8217; | India News &#8211; The Times of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-130097235,imgsize-1103043,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/image-ani.jpg\" alt=\"Amit Shah slams Mallikarjun Kharge for likening BJP-RSS to 'snake'\" title=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>NEW DELHI: <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/bjp\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">BJP<\/a> Tuesday flayed <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/congress\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Congress<\/a> chief <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/mallikarjun-kharge\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Mallikarjun Kharge<\/a> for his &#8220;illiterate&#8221; barb at those supporting the governing party in Gujarat and other states, as home minister <!-- -->Amit Shah<!-- --> retorted that the country is looking to decimate the opposition party in elections for remarks it should be &#8220;ashamed of&#8221;.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"10\"\/>Addressing rallies in Assam, Shah slammed Kharge for likening <!-- -->RSS<!-- --> and BJP to a venomous snake Muslims should finish off to survive. This is not language befitting democracy, he said, alleging Congress under Rahul Gandhi has become a threat to democratic system.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"14\"\/>Kharge at a poll meeting in Kerala had praised its voters for their education standards and said BJP can &#8220;fool&#8221; people in Gujarat and other states as they are &#8220;illiterate&#8221;. In another meeting, he, in an apparent address to Muslims, said, &#8220;Quran allows you to kill a venomous snake near you, even if it means breaking your namaz. RSS and BJP are venomous snake, which if you don&#8217;t kill then you won&#8217;t survive.&#8221;<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"16\"\/>Conduct of Congress netas has fallen since Rahul became the party&#8217;s face, Shah said, asking voters in Assam to give Congress a befitting reply. &#8220;Vote in such a way that Congress is not visible even through a microscope.&#8221;<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"18\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/amit-shah-slams-mallikarjun-kharge-for-likening-bjp-rss-to-snake\/articleshow\/130097210.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: BJP Tuesday flayed Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge for his &#8220;illiterate&#8221; barb at those&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[947,1122,724,1019,723,719,720,721,2407,3784,722],"class_list":["post-9979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-amit-shah","tag-bjp","tag-breaking-news","tag-congress","tag-google-news","tag-india","tag-india-news","tag-india-news-today","tag-mallikarjun-kharge","tag-rss","tag-today-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}