Sonia Gandhi: Congress has Hindus, Muslims and different section people

Mumbai, March 09: UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Friday said the BJP had succeeded in wrongly convincing people that the Congress was "a Muslim party" and the more public focus on its leaders visiting temples was to perhaps to counter that perception.

"BJP has managed to... I don't say brainwash... that's a bit of a rude word... But it has managed to convince, to persuade people that the Congress is a Muslim party," said Gandhi when asked about Congress President Rahul Gandhi's temple visits in Gujarat and if her party was looking at something called soft Hindutva.

"Now, I ask... in my party, the great majority is Hindu... and different sections of ... but yes, there are Muslims. So, I fail to understand this branding us as a sort of Muslim party," she added during an interactive session