New Delhi, Sept. 21 -- Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP and National Spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi on Monday launched a fierce attack on the Congress party, claiming that former Vice President Hamid Ansari's recent reference to Jawaharlal Nehru's views has "thoroughly exposed" the opposition party's ideological moorings.

Addressing a press conference in New Delhi, Trivedi referred to remarks made by Ansari citing a 2019 book, in which India's first Prime Minister was quoted as saying that communism was not as significant a threat to him as Hindu nationalism.

"Former Vice President Hamid Ansari quoted a book which was written in 2019. As per the book, Nehru ji is saying that for him, Communism is not a threat as big as Hindu nationalism....