'Amit Shah, Narendra Modi only two non-animals in the country,' says Rahul Gandhi in response to BJP chief's jibe

Kolar Gold Fields: Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday slammed BJP chief Amit Shah’s remarks equating the Opposition parties with animals, alleging that the “disrespectful statement” reflected his “mentality” that considered Dalits, tribals, minorities and even his own party leaders “worthless”. [caption id=“attachment_4422205” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] File image of Congress chief Rahul Gandhi. PTI[/caption] “Calling the entire Opposition animals… see according to Amit Shah and the basic vision of the BJP and RSS, there are only two non-animals in this country. There is Narendra Modi and there is Amit Shah,” Gandhi told reporters. “Everybody else, as far as they are concerned, are animals. That’s fine, that is the way they look at the world. It is a disrespectful statement, but we don’t take what Amit Shah says with much seriousness,” Gandhi said. Taking a swipe at Shah, the Congress chief said it was the mentality that there were only two or three people in this country “who are worth anything, who understand everything and everybody else is a worthless person.” “It’s not only Dalits, it’s tribals, it’s minorities. It doesn’t stop there. It’s Advani, Manohar Joshi, even Gadkari, it’s everybody,” he said. “The thing is that the BJP people internally don’t have guts to say it to you. They say it to us,” Gandhi said. The Congress president said, “the fact of the matter is between Amit Shah and Modi. They are convinced, there are only two human beings in this country. That’s all, that’s the reality.” At a rally in Mumbai to mark BJP’s foundation day on Friday, Shah had equated Opposition parties to ‘snakes’ and mongoose’ and ‘dogs’ and ‘cats’, who are seeking to unite despite their inherent differences to take on the BJP in next year’s Lok Sabha polls. Later, Shah said his intention was not to equate Opposition parties with animals. At the rally, Shah had said, “The countdown for 2019 (polls) has begun. Attempts are being made for Opposition unity. When huge floods occur, everything is washed away. Only a ‘vatvriksha’ (banyan tree) survives and snakes, mongoose, dogs, cats and other animals climb to save themselves from the rising waters.” At a press conference, Shah later said, “What I meant was political parties having no ideological similarities are coming together out of fear of Modi.”