Brief Outline: Urdu daily Inqalab has quoted Rahul Gandhi saying “Yes Congress is a Muslim party”. Is the quote correct or party will contradict it? Muslims don’t want a Muslim party, they want a National Secular party, which doesn’t discriminate between citizens.

Facts Check: Doubtful

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Urdu daily Inqalab has quoted Rahul Gandhi saying “Yes Congress is a Muslim party”. Is the quote correct or party will contradict it? Muslims don’t want a Muslim party, they want a National Secular party, which doesn’t discriminate between citizens. @RahulGandhi @INCIndia

I read in a newspaper that Congress president has said that Congress is a party of Muslims, I’m not surprised… But I want to ask him whether Congress is a party of only Muslim men or does it also have a place for Muslim women, says Prime Minister Narendra Modi

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Facts Check Analysis: Even the Prime Minister in his rally quoted as saying that I read in a newspaper that Congress president has said that Congress is a party of Muslims.

The news first came from a Urdu daily Inquilab, according to which Rahul Gandhi statement came in the daily as “If BJP says that Congress is a party of Muslims, it is fine. Congress is a party of Muslims, because Muslims are weak and Congress always stands with the weak”, Gandhi said in a closed door meeting with members of the Muslim community.

So indeed the statement was made but this was not the complete statement as taken by BJP and other news channels..

Channels like zee Hindustan took this in the news in correct way “एक उर्दू अखबार इंकलाब में छपी खबर के मुताबिक Indian National Congress अध्यक्ष Rahul Gandhi ने कहा, 'कांग्रेस मुस्लिमों की पार्टी है, क्योंकि देश का मुस्लिम तबका कमज़ोर है और कांग्रेस हमेशा कमज़ोरों के साथ रही है, 2019 में किसी भी कीमत पर बीजेपी को सत्ता में नहीं आने का प्रण लीजिए.'

Historian, S lrfan Habib who was present at the meeting said in a tweet

So the pro congress people are contradicting that such statements were made, however the pro BJP people are more concerned in spreading the news that Rahul Gandhi had given such statement.

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