New Delhi: The veil of secularism is "better than naked communalism", said the Congress while attacking Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and sharing development data to expose his "false" charges against the UPA.
"The veil of secularism is better than naked communalism. Communalism divides the country while secularism unites it," Congress general secretary Ajay Maken told reporters.
Addressing a college gathering in Pune Sunday, Modi said that whenever the Congress government is faced by trouble, they hide behind "a veil of secularism" so that no one questions them on real issues. He also accused the Congress of failing to address poverty.
Maken countered the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and said: "Modi should first improve his state before lecturing the centre on development indicators."
"He (Modi) has no moral authority to criticise the central government when he has failed in his state as chief minister," Maken said.
"He has no right to create a false impression," he said.
Modi had also questioned the outcome of the food security proposal, and hit out at the UPA over the falling value of the rupee and its claims of enacting rights-based legislation, saying people needed action, not acts.
