Dehra Dun, May 09: Stating that Congress is
afflicted with the feeling of despondency and defeatism, BJP on Saturday said that Congress has now started praising those parties which are arch-rivals of its own allies.
"Rahul Gandhi is praising the work of Nitish Kumar
government in Bihar despite the fact that Lalu Prasad Yadav`s
RJD is an ally of Congress. Other Congress leaders are luring
Left parties despite having Mamata Banerjee as their ally in
West Bengal," BJP`s national spokesman Ravishankar Prasad told
reporters at party headquarters here.
"In Tamil Nadu, they want to bring AIADMK with them
despite DMK being the part of UPA," Prasad said.
This behaviour of Congress leaders clearly shows that
the party is afflicted with the feeling of despondency,
pessimism and defeatism, he said.
Prasad said the feeling is evident in the fact that the
party has dismissed its media cell chief Veerappa Moily for
making a statement that if Nitish Kumar wanted to waste his
time with communal parties, then nobody can help him.
Prasad said the Congress` allies are deserting it and
the party is left only with three allies -- Mamata Banerjee in
east, Sharad Pawar in west and Karunanidhi`s DMK in south.
He alleged that the Congress failed to respond to the
charges by the BJP on all the major issues--inflation,
unemployment and terrorism.
"Why an economist Prime Minister cannot check the rate
of inflation. Why 1.25 lakh people lost their jobs till April
this year. Taliban is knocking at the doors of India, what is
the government of India`s stand on it," Prasad said.
On the issue of bringing back the black money deposited
in the swiss banks, he alleged that Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh is terming it as a political stunt just because he is
embarrassed with the fact that his own party people have their
money in those banks.
To a question about Chief Election Commissioner Navin
Chawla, Prasad said that he would also follow the footsteps of
his predecessors, who have done great historic work in
strengthening the democratic system in the country.
Bureau Report
