Senior BJP leader and Union Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman slammed Rahul Gandhi for his concluding remarks at the Congress Plenary Session in New Delhi on Sunday.
Senior BJP leader and Union Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman slammed Rahul Gandhi for his concluding remarks at the Congress Plenary Session in New Delhi on Sunday.
‘It sounds like a rhetoric of a loser,’ Sitharaman said while addressing media in the national capital.
Taking a dig at Gandhi’s reference to Mahabharat, Sitharaman said, ‘A party which question the fundamental existence of 'Shree Ram' today wants to be identified with the Pandavs.’
‘Rahul Gandhi attacked Veer Savarkar just to make his family responsible for freedom,’ the defence minister added.
‘Congress is against technology, otherwise even questioning the EVMs at this time by the party, they want the ballot paper system. At a time when technology is making it simpler, here is a party that is against it because they do not believe in transparency,’ Sitharaman said.
She also hit out at Congress president for attacking BJP chief Amit Shah and said, ‘Rahul Gandhi is still out on bail on a criminal conspiracy of fraud in National Herald Case and talks about an allegation which has been cleared by the court about out National President Shri Amit Shah.’
In his concluding remark on the last day of the Congress Plenary Session, Rahul Gandhi had said that the BJP, like the Kauravas, fought for power, while his party, on the lines of the Pandavas, battled for truth.
"Instead of acknowledging the challenges facing the nation, Prime Minister Narendra Modi diverts our attention from our problems. We are being told that our problems only exist in our imagination," he said.
The BJP-RSS's goal was power, Gandhi stressed at the Congress party's plenary session here.
"Like the Kauravas, the BJP and RSS fight for power. Like the Pandavas, the Congress fights for truth," he said.
Gandhi voiced the hope that India would in the next decade play an all-important role on the global stage.
"There are two visions in the world -- of US and China. In 10 years, I want to see India's vision there," he said.
In his address, he assured party workers that he would break walls between them and leaders and vowed to fill the Congress stage with "talented youngsters".
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