After Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s attack on the Congress and the Gandhi family over the Emergency, the party retorted he is more cruel than Mughal emperor Aurangzeb.
The party said Modi was launching an attack on the Congress only to hide his own failures and the “false” promises and “jumlas” he had made to the public before coming to power.
The party also termed former PM Indira Gandhi as the tallest leader of her times and she can never be equated with Modi or German dictator Adolf Hitler.
Senior Congress leader Ahmed Patel questioned if the BJP will apologise for the “undeclared emergency” of the past four years… “Will they apologise for the undeclared emergency for the last 4 yearsIJ People are being lynched & threatened, agencies are being misused, economic and civil liberties are being curtailed and “enslaved democracy” in the country for the past 49 months,” he tweeted.
Sharpening his attack on Modi, Surjewala said, “Aurangzeb never took lessons from anybody... Dictators don’t take lessons, only history teaches them lessons and I am sure Modiji will also have the same fate.”
“Delhi Sultanate’s ‘dictator’ Modi, who is even more cruel than Aurangzeb, today gave lessons to the country on the Emergency imposed 43 years ago. By taking out his anger on the Congress, can a lid be put on Modiji’s ‘jumlas’IJ Today’s Aurangzeb has enslaved democracy in the country including in his own party, the BJP. Modiji while trying to put a lid on his own failures is taking revenge from history today, but he has forgotten that he himself will become history soon,” Surjewala said at party briefing.
He alleged that an atmosphere of fear was being created in the country to suppress dissent with those opposing them dubbed as “anti-national” and that an “undeclared emergency” was imposed in the country under Modi.
In an apparent attack on Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu, the Congress leader said “unfortunately, if those sitting in constitutional positions will also murder ‘maryada’ and set traditions, then people’s faith in democracy will be hurt.” Surjewala alleged that the Prime Minister himself was threatening the States to fall in line or there will be a cut in the grants released to them.
“There is an undeclared emergency in this country for the last 49 months with opposition suppressed and PM Modi himself following those who give death and rape threats to anyone who oppose them, including BJP’s Ministers,” he said.
The party also alleged that the Finance Ministry is actively working to disrupt the thriving Indian economy instead of improving it. Senior Congress leader Anand Sharma flayed Union Minister Arun Jaitley for drawing a parallel between former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and German dictator Adolf Hitler, saying it was an “absurd and outrageous” distortion of history.
He said that the Emergency imposed by Indira Gandhi in 1975 was an aberration and she herself regretted it. The Congress leader said Jaitley’s obsession with Hitler was understandable as “he comes from the RSS-BJP school that celebrates Hitler and eulogize fascism”.