Former Chhattisgarh CM Ajit Jogi on Monday slammed BJP leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi for describing the Congress as Indian Nautanki Congress. The statement made by Naqvi was nothing but childish and cheap, the senior congress leader said.
Describing the Congress party as the most democratic and true secular party, Jogi said it was the Congress which has involved the people of minority community including Muslims, Sikhs, Christians Buddhists, and Jains in the main stream after independence and has been continue to do so. he said. Naqvi’s statement on Rahul Gandhi is a communal statement, he said. He also described the Sunjay Gandhi Maidan rally in New Delhi as a rally of ‘few people’. He said the Congress party is the real champion for the minority cause and that is why people of minority community are always with the Congress. He also justified the protest planned by Chhattisgarh Anusuchit jati Arakhsan Bachao samittee at Raipur on Tuesday against Govt move to reduce percentage of reservation for SC from 16 to 12 and said his party stand by them.