The Congress on Saturday rejected BJP president Rajnath Singh’s demand for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s resignation, saying that UPA does not face any credibility crisis which has proved by the Karnataka Assembly polls where the party emerged victorious while the BJP was decimated.
launching a counter offensive, Congress spokesperson Renuka Chowdhury expressed shock and astonishment over the demonstrations by rowdy elements outside the house of senior BJP leader lK Advani to forcibly get the consent of veteran BJP leader for Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s elevation as the Election Campaign Committee head.
“Today, what is happening outside Advani’s residence should frighten all of us. If a man who is virtually the architect of that political party is now faced with that kind of rowdyism, then the nation stands warned that what is going to come to them. That terrify us,” she said adding that the incident clearly exposed what kind of treatment BJP leaders and workers mete out to their elders in the party.
“The country has seen the trailer. The full movie is yet to be seen. They are not even maintaining dignity of their own senior most leaders, his age or experience or even the situation. And the nation remembers these things,” Chowdhury said
She said that senior Ministers like Advani, Yashwant Sinha, Jaswant Singh skipping the BJP meeting in Goa has proved that the BJP is a divided house and there is no unity in the party. She charged the BJP with not contributing positively to any policy decision be it related Food Security Bill or removing malnutrition. The BJP has always had a destructive approach resulting in demand for resignation of PM, but there is no question of his resignation as Karnataka poll results have proved it is for the BJP to answer a lot on the issue of corruption.
Renuka said that the Congress is not concerned over Modi’s elevation as he is not even being projected as PM candidate but just the Election Campaign Committee head.