'Advani praised Jinnah': Congress reminds PM Modi of 'history', says Jana Sangh founder made deal with Muslim League

Congress leader Jairam Ramesh launched a scathing attack against Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who claimed on Saturday that the Congress' manifesto "completely bears the imprint of the Muslim League".

Reacting to PM Modi's comments, Ramesh posted a video on X, "reminding" the Prime Minister of the history. He claimed that Shyama Prasad Mukherjee, the founder of Jana Sangh and president of Hindu Mahasabha, "was running a coalition government with Muslim League in Bengal, Sindh and North West Frontier Province".

"The Prime Minister said the Congress adopted the policy of the Muslim League, let me remind the Prime Minister, in 1940, 1941 and 42, which person, which Muslim party, was in the coalition government with the Muslim League, in Bengal," Ramesh asked in a video message.

"Shyama Prasad Mukherjee, who was the founder of the Jana Sangh and president of the Hindu Mahasabha, had formed a coalition government with the Muslim League. There was an alliance between the Hindu Mahasabha and the Muslim League In Bengal, in Sindh and in the Northwest Frontier Province," Congress MP Jairam Ramesh claimed.

Speaking with news agency ANI, he said, "Shyama Prasad Mukherjee made an agreement with Jinnah's Muslim League. Congress had never made an agreement..."

The Muslim League and Mohammed Ali Jinnah had made the demand for the partition of British India into separate Hindu and Muslim states. After the formation of Pakistan in 1947, the League became Pakistan's dominant political party.

Ramesh further claimed that BJP stalwarts Lal Krishna Advani and Jaswant Singh had gone "to Pakistan and praised Jinnah".