Accusing Congress of resorting to violent protests to "hide" its corruption, the BJP on Wednesday said Opposition party's stir shows its progressive decline and claimed that covering up Gandhi family's alleged graft is "true satya" of its "satyagraha". BJP spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi invoked Mahatma Gandhi's decision to call-off Congress's non-cooperation movement due to violence, and claimed that tparty's "violent protests" now for opposing probe in a case of corruption shows how small party has become.
Addressing a press conference, Trivedi noted that Rahul Gandhi, who is being questioned by ED in National Herald case, is neither his party's president nor leader of opposition as he questioned Congress's show of strength for him. The Congress has now become solely a family party, he claimed. The BJP's attack on Congress came as Gandhi appeared before Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday for third consecutive day of questioning in National Herald money laundering case.
Both chief ministers of party — Ashok Gehlot of Rajasthan and Bhupesh Baghel of Chhattisgarh—and most of its MPs are in the national capital as part of Congress' protests against ED's summons to Rahul Gandhi, he observed. Are two chief ministers not "betraying" mandate given to them by their states by camping in national capital, asked Trivedi.
"Violence that Congress is resorting to cover up blatant corruption of their leadership is exposing true 'satya' of their so-called 'satyagraha'," he said on protests by Congress. There are reports of Congress workers engaging in arson and violence in different parts of country, he said. Taking a swipe at opposition party over the allegation that Gandhi family "grabbed" assets of Associated Journals Limited, which publishes National Herald, through Young Indian, the BJP spokesperson said it was a strange case in which leadership of a party has engaged in corruption by allegedly capturing assets linked to their own organisation.
National herald has been associated with the Congress.