BJP secretary Shrikant Sharma said it showed the Congress's "intolerance against truth" as most of what had appeared was a "matter of fact".
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday gloated over the Congress's embarrassment following the publication of articles critical of Jawaharlal Nehru and Sonia Gandhi in its mouthpiece, saying the "truth" it had been "hiding" has come out.
Rubbing salt to the wounds of former Congress MP Sanjay Nirupam, the editor of the journal, Union Minister Prakash Javadekar "congratulated" him and quipped he was known for such write-ups when he was the editor of the Hindi edition of the Shiv Sena mouthpiece Dopahar Ka Saamna.
Nirupam, who was in Sena before he joined Congress, is also the president of the Mumbai Regional Congress Committee (MRCC), which publishes the magazine Congress Darshan.
While Nirupam tendered a public apology, the MRCC dissociated itself from the opinions expressed in the mouthpiece. Content editor Sudhir Joshi has been removed.
BJP secretary Shrikant Sharma said it showed the Congress's "intolerance against truth" as most of what had appeared was a "matter of fact".
The December issue of Congress Darshan has published two articles, in which Joshi said that Sonia's father was a fascist soldier in Mussolini's army.
He also mentioned that Sonia became party president just 62 days after joining as a primary member of the party.
In another article, Jawaharlal Nehru was criticised for his foreign policy-related decisions. Joshi said that had Nehru heard his deputy prime minister and then home minister Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, India's present-day problems over China, Nepal and Kashmir would not have arose.
"Patel merged 562 provinces into India and Nehru was in charge of only Kashmir and it remains a problem. Patel had warned about China's betrayal on Tibet... This is not the BJP or Javadekar saying so, but the mouthpiece of the Congress. What Congress had been hiding has come out. I congratulate Sanjay Nirupam," Javadekar told a press conference.
He wondered if Nirupam had done a copy-and-paste work by lifting some articles he might have written for Saamna earlier.
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