BJP throws tantrums over alleged Azad remark on RSS, Cong leader denies
As BJP members threw tantrum, Union Minister of state for Parliamentary Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi demanded apology from the Congress for Azad making such a comment at an event organised by a Muslim body where he sought to draw a parallel between the RSS and ISIS.
"Congress party must apologise for statement made by Leader of Opposition Ghulam Nabi Azad," he said.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley also joined him, saying "Ghulam Nabi Azad must accept what he said what was wrong."
"Nothing is a bigger threat to the world currently than ISIS... "To suggest it is like another organization gives it respectability - this is what you have done, perhaps inadvertently," Jaitley said.
However, denying the allegation, Azad said he had not made any such comment.
"Throw me out of Parliament, if It is proved that I have commented comparing RSS with ISIS," he said.
"I request BJP parliamentarians to go into a room to listen to this CD," Azad said waving a CD before reading out the part of his speech made at a programme on Saturday.
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