Ayodhya:
As Narendra Modi plays the caste card to trump Priyanka Gandhi Vadra's ace, his colleague from the BJP Arun Jaitley tells NDTV that media is being too liberal in dealing with the Gandhis and questions what would media reaction had been if he had used the phrase "neech rajneeti".
Mr Jaitley also speaks on the controversy over Ram Mandir backdrop of Mr Modi's stage at a rally in Faizabad and the BJP's stand on Bangladeshis.
Here are the excerpts of his interview:
- Legally, there is no problem with Lord Ram and Ram Mandir's depiction on stage
- Politically, the BJP's Faizabad unit should have avoided Lord Ram's depiction
- BJP's campaign is about governance, 99 per cent of our campaign has been about development issues
- Had BJP used the words neech rajniti the media would have come after us
- Media kind to Priyanka, won't apply same standards to others
- Priyanka is an occasional politician, must use words carefully
- Modi's comments on Bangladeshi migrants logical, not communal
- Modi spoke about infiltrators, we are open to Muslim refugees