BJP says Rahul poor performer as Congress chief
Patra said those who had driven this country in reverse gear for 10 years, should not make such a comment.
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Partry (BJP) on Sunday took a dig at the Congress, saying that the Congress Working Committee (CWC) meet presided over by Rahul Gandhi was instead a “Congress non-working committee” meeting headed by the party's “non-performing” chief.
Party spokesperson Sambit Patra said that the CWC meeting was more of a “Congress darbari meeting” and it was aimed at promoting the interests of a single family. “Today, the CWC, rather the Congress non-working committee, met under non-performing president Rahul Gandhi. After losing the no-confidence motion badly on the floor of Parliament, this was a meeting chaired by Rahul Gandhi, which was previously being chaired by Sonia Gandhi for 20 long years,” he said.
Referring to Mrs Sonia Gandhi's statement that the Narendra Modi government's reverse countdown had begun, Mr Patra said those who had driven this country in reverse gear for 10 years, should not make such a comment. “The reverse countdown of dynastic politics, appeasement politics and caste politics has begun,” he said, adding that one decision taken at the CWC meeting was that “we do not want to win and our sole aim is to defeat Modi.”
Terming it a “negative sentiment,” Mr Patra said, “This country is an intelligent country which only gives way to positive politics and not negative politics.”
He also attacked Mrs Gandhi for accusing the PM of indulging in rhetoric and said the country has witnessed the politics of “hug and wink” and the rhetoric on the floor of Parliament.
The BJP spokesperson also took on former PM Manmohan Singh over his remarks on “self praise and jumlas,” saying that those who had reduced the post of the PM to a “jumla,” should not talk about it.