The opposition Congress party, which Gandhi once led, condemned the remarks, with spokesman Randeep Singh Surjewala saying that Thakur had 'insulted the entire country'.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi gestures as he speaks during BJP's Vijay Sankalp rally in Hoshiarpur on May 10, 2019.
The comments by firebrand monk Pragya Singh Thakur came as the country heads into the final round of its marathon election this weekend. Gandhi was slain in 1948 by Godse, a Hindu fanatic angered by what he saw as Gandhi’s pandering to Muslims and by the partition of India after independence in 1947.
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