The BJP on Sunday slammed the Congress over its ‘Sankalp Satyagraha’, alleging that it was agitating towards the nation’s Constitution and the courtroom’s verdict towards Rahul Gandhi to justify his remarks towards the “entire backward community” of the nation.
Addressing a press convention, BJP spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi additionally dubbed the Congress agitation as an “insult” to Mahatma Gandhi, saying whereas the Father of the Nation had organised Satyagraha for social causes, the Congress was holding ?so-called Satyagraha? for private causes.
The Congress agitation is a “brazen” show of its vanity after Gandhi’s conviction in a defamation case in Gujarat and his “automatic” disqualification as Lok Sabha MP because of the courtroom’s verdict, he charged.
The agitation has nothing to do with combating for reality, he added.
The BJP chief mentioned Gandhi was convicted by a courtroom in Surat after the due authorized course of and his disqualification as a Lok Sabha MP was an computerized consequence underneath the related regulation.
“Then, Satyagraha for what?” the BJP chief requested.
“Is it to justify the way you insulted the entire backward community of the country, or against the court which sentenced you, or against the provision under which you have to be disqualified,” he mentioned, asking Congress to make clear.
Stating that a few of the Congress leaders who had been allegedly concerned within the 1984 anti-Sikh riots had been additionally collaborating within the occasion’s agitation, the BJP chief requested the opposition occasion to make clear if their Satyagraha organised at Mahatma Gandhi’s Samadhi Sthal in Rajghat was additionally towards ‘Ahimsa’ (non-violence).
