Digvijay Singh takes a jibe at Uma Bharti over Rahul Gandhi comments

The Congress today took a jibe at former BJP leader Uma Bharti for her comment that Rahul Gandhi has made "irresponsible" remarks that Hindu radicals posed a bigger threat than terror outfits like LeT and that he should take lessons from her in politics.

"First Uma should make it clear who have been her disciples in politics so far," party leader Digvijay Singh told reporters here.

On Rahul's comment that radicalised Hindu groups posed a bigger threat than outfits like Lashkar-e-Taiba, Bharti said Rahul should act maturely.

"Rahul is taking notes from Digvijay Singh...Rahul should take class from me, should study a bit..He should not make irresponsible comments," Bharti said, claiming that Dijvijay was teaching Rahul to make statements against RSS to garner Muslim votes.

Congress spokesperson Manish Tewari maintained that he does not want to make any comment but was quick to add, "those who are in political sanyas give such comments to be in news", in apparent reference to Bharti who was expelled from BJP in 2005 and is now expected to make a comeback in the party soon.

On the issue of her return to BJP, Bharti has said she is yet to take a decision on it.