BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra addresses a press convention in New Delhi.
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The BJP on March 21, 2023 stepped up its assault on Congress chief Rahul Gandhi by calling him a “present day Mir Jafar”, alluding to somebody soliciting assist from overseas to battle political battles in India. The reference was to the Nawab of Bengal who, in return for betraying the then Nawab of Bengal, Siraj-ud-Daulah, throughout the Battle of Plassey in 1757 with the British, was put in as ruler of Bengal, and in flip granted main concessions to the British for commerce.
Addressing a press convention on the BJP’s headquarters in New Delhi, social gathering spokesperson Sambit Patra mentioned: “It would not be an aberration to say that Rahul Gandhi is a present day Mir Jafar of Indian polity. What he has done in London is the same thing that Mir Jafar did.”
“Rahul Gandhi did the same thing during his visit to London. He invited foreign forces to come to India. Shehzada (princeling) wants to become a nawab. Shehzada has sought help from the East India Company to become a nawab,” Mr. Patra charged.
Mr. Patra additionally alleged that it wasn’t the primary time Mr. Gandhi had “spoken against India” abroad. “This is just not a random issue. This is a consistent conspiracy by the Congress party and the Gandhi family,” he added.
Mr. Patra asserted that the BJP wouldn’t let Mr. Gandhi get away with out an apology for his remarks in London. “There is no other alternative left before him. He will have to apologise. We will make him apologise,” he mentioned.
Highlighting Mr. Gandhi’s participation in parliamentary debate, Mr. Patra mentioned, “Debate is the soul of democracy but Rahul Gandhi had participated only six times since 2019. He is not participating in the debate.”
Previously, throughout an interplay on the Chatham House in London lately, Mr. Gandhi had alleged that microphones of opposition leaders had been typically silenced within the Indian Parliament. He criticised the BJP-led authorities on the Centre and levelled a number of allegations.
The Congress chief had additionally alleged that varied establishments within the nation had been underneath menace. ”It shocked me how profitable they [the BJP] have been at capturing the completely different establishments of our nation. Press, judiciary, Parliament and Election Commission are all underneath menace and are managed in by hook or by crook,” Mr. Gandhi had mentioned.
