Atal-Advani era has come to an end in BJP: Karuna

Congress leader Karuna Shukla, niece of  former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, said that Narendra Modi and Rajnath Singh had hijacked the Bharatiya Janata Party and both would ditch the country if, by default, they got the power.

"Atal-Advani's BJP era has come to an end now and it is for the first time that Modi, who is trying to project himself above god, is above the party," she said.Addressing a press conference here on Saturday along with Congress candidate from lucknow, Rita Bahuguna Joshi, Shukla criticised Modi and Rajnath Singh. She even said that Rajnath Singh and Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh were the most corrupt leaders of the country.

I know both of them are involved in several scams worth thousands of crores of rupees and one day their misdeeds would be exposed," she said.Shukla, who is contesting from Bilaspur lok Sabha seat in Chhattisgarh on Congress ticket, said that Rajnath Singh was making a false claim that Atal Bihari Vajpayee had given him blessings and that he was Atalji's political heir.

"How can Rajnath become a political heir of Atalji when I am his blood relative and am in politics. Rajnath is just making false claim to mislead the voters. He even told lies that he had met Atalji," she said.Karuna Shukla, who was vice-president of the BJP, resigned after she was denied ticket.Vajpayee's niece said that she would never return to BJP as the party had insulted her for over five years and had even not spared Atalji, who was the face of the party."Nowadays there are talks about Gujarat model of development. From where it cameIJ The BJP should answer what happened to the Atal model of developmentIJ

Has the BJP forgotten it and now is only interested in the Gujarat ModelIJ" she asked.