New Delhi: Various right-wing groups on Tuesday held a protest meeting in the Lok Sabha against Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi's recent "not Hindu" remark and asked the Congress leader to desist from "insulting" the community.

A protest meeting was organized here under the banner of Sarva Hindu Samaj.

Volunteers and members of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), Bajrang Dal, Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram, Durga Vahini, Hindu Jagran Manch, Arya Samaj Pratinidhi Sabha and Sanatan Dharma Pratinidhi Sabha also participated in the meeting. Many Hindu sages and saints also participated in it.

"The Hindu Shakti Sangam event was organized at the Constitution Club on Tuesday by the Sarva Hindu Samaj to protest against the portrayal of Hindus as violent and insulting them in Parliament," the organizer of the event said in a statement without naming Gandhi. "

Sarva Hindu Samaj, through its Aakrosh Sabha today, has given a clear warning to all the anti-Hindu forces who continuously insult the Hindu society and Sanatan Dharma inside and outside the Parliament, that they should not test their patience. Hindu society considers its tolerance and brotherhood as its weakness.

The protest meeting comes at a time when Gandhi, speaking in the Lok Sabha on July 1, had launched a no-holds-barred attack on the ruling BJP and said the saffron party's leaders were not Hindus as they engaged in "violence and hatred". Has happened. day and night.

His remarks were strongly opposed by the ruling party in the lower house, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi accusing the Congress leader of calling the entire Hindu community violent.

However, Gandhi hit back at Modi, saying that he was speaking about the BJP and that neither the ruling party, nor the RSS nor Modi represent the entire Hindu society.