The BJP criticised Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi for not mentioning Nandigram violence in their speeches at the AICC session.
NEW DELHI: The BJP on Saturday criticised Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi for not mentioning Nandigram violence in their speeches at the AICC session and questioned whether their "deafening silence" indicated their approval of the "mayhem" against Muslims there.
The party also took strong objection to Gandhi's allegation about BJP indulging in "obstructionist" politics, saying it reflects her "undemocratic mindset".
"Beyond the semantics and pseudo-minority tokenism, what is shocking is the deafening silence of the Prime Minister and Congress president over the atrocities committed against Muslims in Nandigram," party spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad said.
"Does their continuing silence indicate that their conscience has been effectively overshadowed by the compulsion of power and the urge to hold on to it at any cost," Prasad said attacking Singh and Gandhi for not mentioning Nandigram in their speeches at AICC session.
Alleging that CPI(M) cadres had indulged in "mass rape and state-organised mayhem" in Nandigram, the BJP leader asked: "will the Prime Minister and Congress president come on record and let the nation know" whether it bears "their stamp of approval?"
About Rahul Gandhi and the young MPs being projected at the AICC session, Prasad said BJP feels that the young leaders of Congress lacked "political potential".
Referring to the arrest of three Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorists in Lucknow yesterday, he asked the UPA government to resolve to combat terror regardless of "political consequences" in the light of the development in Uttar Pradesh.
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