Shashi Tharoor: BJP promotes narrow-minded idea of India based on Hindutva

Shillong, Feb 24: Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Friday charged Narendra Modi government with promoting a narrow-minded idea of India based on Hindutva and appealed to voters in Meghalaya not to vote for the BJP in the February 27 Assembly polls.

"This is a government with no tangible achievements. What it has been trying to do is to change the very nature of what India is all about. For 70 years, we have been trying to build India. Even the first NDA government did not dare to tamper with the idea of India as a country of all people," he told journalists here.

"They (BJP) come to Meghalaya and they talked about being kind to Christians in BJP-ruled states. I am sorry to say -- we have seen horrendous incidents involving Christians," Tharoor said.