"Leave your arrogance...": Sudhanshu Trivedi on Rahul Gandhi's remarks that Congress will defeat BJP in Gujarat

New Delhi [India], July 7 (ANI): Reacting to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's remarks that the party "will defeat BJP in Gujarat like we did defeat them in Ayodhya", Bharatiya Janata Party national spokesperson and MP Sudhanshu Trivedi suggested the latter to leave the "arrogance", adding that he should talk about religious issues with simplicity, honesty and modesty.
Earlier on July 6, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said that Congress and its allies in the INDIA bloc would defeat the BJP in Gujarat assembly polls like they had defeated it in Ayodhya in the Lok Sabha polls.
"Talk about religious things with sensitivity, with respect and dignity. I'll say, leave your arrogance and talk about religious issues with simplicity, honesty and modesty," Trivedi said on Sunday.
"As a LoP, he (Rahul Gandhi) is free to raise any issue in the parliament. But, I would like to say to him that he is not only in the opposition, they (Congress) are in government in many states, show by performing there. When we were in opposition, we had shown the Gujarat model by acting," he added.
Addressing party workers in Ahmedabad, Rahul Gandhi, who is the Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha, referred to BJP's loss in the Lok Sabha constituency that includes Ayodhya, and claimed that the INDIA alliance had defeated the movement started by former BJP chief LK Advani.
Advani had carried out a rath yatra in 1990 to mobilise support for the movement to construct a grand Ram temple in Ayodhya. BJP has said that the yatra also sought to raise questions over prevailing debate concerning "secularism" and "communalism" and for rejecting the "cult of minoritism".
The BJP lost the Faizabad Lok Sabha constituency, which includes Ayodhya, in the recently concluded Lok Sabha polls.
"Together we are going to defeat them in Gujarat. We will defeat Narendra Modi and BJP in Gujarat just like we defeated them in Ayodhya," Rahul Gandhi said.
The Assembly elections in Gujarat will be held in 2027. (ANI)