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Venkaiah Naidu questions Sonia Gandhi's election as Congress president

The senior BJP leader asked whether the post was reserved for a single family.

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Questioning another term for Sonia Gandhi as Congress president, senior BJP leader Venkaiah Naidu today asked whether the post was reserved for a single family.

"It is the prerogative of a party to choose its own president. But, is the post reserved for a single family? The issue is not the question of an individual," Naidu told newsmen after addressing a training camp for BJP leaders here.

Sonia Gandhi is set to be re-elected unopposed as the Congress President for the fourth consecutive term.

Stating that former BJP presidents Atal Bihari Vajpayee and LK Advani had set a healthy tradition by not remaining in the post for more than two terms, he asked, "will the 125-year old Congress follow a similar tradition?"

Although the BJP has relations with the RSS, the policies and programmes of the party are not decided by the RSS which is only a cultural organisation, Naidu said.

Earlier, addressing the training camp, the former BJP president said that after Independence, Mahatma Gandhi had advised Congress leaders to disband the party as the goal of the country's freedom had been achieved.

"But Congress never cared for Gandhiji's advice. They want to exploit the name of the party. The Congress of today has nothing to do with the party that led the Freedom Movement," Naidu alleged.

Naidu said that Left parties and Trinamool Congress should also be held responsible for the evils of the country as the Left had supported the first UPA government and Trinamool was an ally of the second.

"These parties are following a 'cooperate, operate and separate' policy," Naidu alleged.

Claiming that the BJP was the only alternative to the Congress at the national level, he said the saffron party had never suffered a split in its history while the Congress had split many times.

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