BJP secretary Shrikant Sharma said Congress leaders have committed the "grave crime" of supporting an anti-national Yakub Memon and for raising "question" marks on the country's judiciary.
BJP attacked Congress leaders Digvijay Singh and Shashi Tharoor on Thursday for their statements on the hanging of Yakub Memon alleging they amounted to being "anti-national" and demanded an apology from Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Vice President Rahul Gandhi. BJP also said that their comments were an "insult" to people wanting to get rid of terrorism and any politics over it is regrettable.
Union Minister Arun Jaitley slammed Congress leaders for giving "contrarian" statements on Memon's death sentence, which was upheld by the Supreme Court, saying it is "a cause of concern" and demanded that its president Sonia Gandhi explain to the country the party's stand on this. He lamented that it was the country's "misfortune" that Congress leaders were giving statements that were "politically motivated" on an incident like the 1993 Mumbai terror attacks, which is an important terror incident in which 257 persons lost their lives and several hundreds injured.
BJP secretary Shrikant Sharma said Congress leaders have committed the "grave crime" of supporting an anti-national Yakub Memon and for raising "question" marks on the country's judiciary.
"Supporting an anti-national amounts to being anti-national," he said.
Questioning the "silence" of Congress president Sonia Gandhi and demanding action against the leaders, he said "the silence of Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi is not just laughable but also surprising. We demand that they either support Digvijay Singh and Shashi Tharoor or act against them. Both Sonia and Rahul Gandhi should apologise for the statements of leaders that amounts to the insult of the nation," the BJP leader said.
Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad attacked Singh, saying his comments "seek to question the judicial process", and spoke of Singh's attempts at "alignment" between judicial process and politics. Prasad said he chose to ignore Tharoor's tweets against the hanging, which the Congress MP dubbed as "state-sponsored killing", and added that he was "more troubled" by Singh's comments as he was a
Congress general secretary, chief minister for 10 years and an "adviser" to Rahul Gandhi. Prasad's ministerial colleague Rajiv Pratap Rudy said he was "shocked" by Tharoor's comments and termed them as "bizarre".
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