There are a few takers for LK Advani’s advisory on who is an anti-national even within the BJP. One of them is Nitin Gadkari, who has echoed the sentiment in an interview to NDTV. “We should respect different opinions because this is the real, true spirit of democracy,” the Union Minister said.
He was asked to comment on Advani’s blog earlier this month, which was considered a blasphemous act by the 91-year-old BJP patriarch after he was unceremoniously elbowed out of the election. “Right from its inception, the BJP has never regarded those who disagree with us politically as our ‘enemies’, but only as our adversaries.
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In our conception of Indian nationalism, we have never regarded those who disagree with us politically as anti-national,” Advani had written. Nitin Gadkari said: “We do not want to call anybody who is not with us anti-national. It is his right to express and we do not have any problem about it because we always say that there are differences of opinion in a democracy.”
