New Delhi, June 7 -- Union Minister Kiren Rijiju on Sunday slammed Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy for employing rhetoric that risks fracturing the nation along regional lines, specifically concerning comparisons to Hitler, which he characterised as deeply divisive and out of touch with the reality of modern India's representative democracy.

He remarked on the irony of such accusations, suggesting that if a leader from the ruling party were to use similar inflammatory rhetoric, it would be met with an outcry of "Nazism" or "Fascism" by the same political ecosystem.

He pointed out that while political critique is a pillar of democracy, the constant resort to such divisive and inflammatory language weakens the national fabric rat...