The BJP reacted angrily to Rahul Gandhi’s remarks accusing him of raising the “old bogey” as he has no answers to the “failures” of the Congress-led UPA Government.
BJP spokesperson Nirmala Sitharaman said Rahul’s remarks terming the SIT report that gave clean chit to Modi as “flawed” though it was accepted by the court was “shocking” and showed how the Congress “does not respect any institution”.
Deputy leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Ravi Shankar Prasad said the 2014 election issues are rising inflation, economic downturn, growth story over, unemployment, corruption, general sense of insecurity of India. “These are issues on which Rahul Gandhi has no answers. Therefore, he is deliberately, consciously trying to divert and raise old bogey when the entire record of Congress stinks with communal card reputation,” he said.
He said the entire SIT was constituted by the Supreme Court as it picked up the personnel -- including the officers with impeccable integrity, “who examined, investigated, reinvestigated even Narendra Modi and came to the conclusion that allegations against him were absolutely untenable and without evidence”.
He said though Rahul is entitled to live in his “fairy tale land” that the UPA will come to power the third time, he knows it in the heart of his heart that the people of the country are “badly yearning” for a change.
Former BJP ally JD(U) endorsed Rahul’s viewpoint on the 2002 riots but the left also responded by saying that the Congress leader should have better talked about performance of Government.