Following Rahul Gandhi’s remarks against the Prime Minister, the BJP on Saturday hit back saying the Congress leader “behaves as per his standards” and it does not expect anything better from him.
At the unveiling of common minimum programme of the SP-Congress alliance in lucknow, Rahul took a swipe at Narendra Modi for his “raincoat in bathroom” barb at Manmohan Singh, saying the Prime Minister was more interested in “peeping into bathrooms of people”.
Union Minister Prakash Javadekar said, “Everybody behaves as per his standards and the BJP does not expect anything better from the Congress leader”.
“The SP and the BSP are not options for people. Only the BJP is the right alternative. Only the BJP can do holistic development of the State and will win the polls with a big mandate,” he said at a Press conference.
Targeting Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav, he alleged that the State’s public service commission was embroiled in scam and there was discrimination in handing over laptops to students by the SP Government.
Asked about the support announced for Mayawati-led BSP by some Muslim clerics, the BJP leader downplayed it saying everybody has a right to seek votes for a leader of their choice but people take a judicious call.
He claimed the BJP has maintained its “prime” position in Uttar Pradesh, which it had swept in 2014 General Election.
He said a BJP survey had shown that the party will win majority of the seats which went to polls today and will get a “big mandate”.
He also cited the party’s win in all three graduate constituencies of the legislative Council elections as evidence of popular support. Its results were announced on Saturday.
Referring to murder of a youth in Bijnor on Friday, he said law and order has been “destroyed” under the SP Government. There have been 1,400 incidents of criminals attacking police personnel in the last five years and 24 police personnel were killed, he said adding women and Dalits have suffered the most, as on an average 13 murders had occurred daily.