The Congress on Sunday said the political parties that broke the opposition ranks to facilitate the victory of the NDA nominee in the election for the post of Rajya Sabha deputy chairman had exposed their "hypocrisy".
Congress spokesperson Priyanka Chaturvedi also claimed that the Opposition unity was intact, even though some parties had voted against the Opposition nominee in the August 9 election.
Harivansh Narayan Singh of the Janata Dal (United) won the election against Opposition candidate B K Hariprasad of the Congress in the Upper House of Parliament. Addressing a press conference here, Chaturvedi said the outcome of the election did not mean the opposition unity had broken.
"A lot of people and political parties that have been attacking the (Narendra) Modi Government and claiming to represent the voice of the common people chose to abstain and not vote against the candidate put up by the Government."
They clearly shirked their own responsibilities and exposed their hypocrisy," she alleged.
During the election, the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), the ruling parties in Odisha and Delhi respectively, broke ranks with the Opposition to facilitate the NDA candidate's victory, despite their fierce political battles with the BJP in their States.