New Delhi: The Congress Party on Monday criticised the RSS student wing Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad's claim that Dadri lynching was a result of a personal dispute caused by a 'love affair', saying that it was insulting to justify the barbaric crime.

'The Rashtriya Swayam Sevak and all its affiliates want to change the fundamental character of India. The reality is that, what happened in Dadri was barbaric and to try and justify it is even more preposterous and obnoxious. Justifying the lynching is not only insulting but a much bigger crime,' Congress leader Manish Tewari told ANI.