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Blackmail is bread and butter of BJP, says Sonia
Tuesday August 28, 2012 02:20:22 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: Lashing out at the Bharatiya Janata Party
for stalling parliament, Congress president Sonia Gandhi Monday
asked her party MPs to take it head-on and said blackmail has
become the BJP's "bread and butter".
With the government under attack over coal block allocations,
Gandhi said at a meeting of the Congress Parliamentary Party here
that it was a "matter of shame and regret" that the BJP was not
allowing parliament to function.
"Creating confusion in the minds of people and blackmail has
become the bread and butter of the BJP, which is a matter of
concern even for some of its allies," a Congress insider quoted
Gandhi as telling the Congress Parliamentary Party meeting.
She said that disruption has become a day-to-day affair of the BJP,
the Congress source told IANS. She also asked MPs to take the BJP
head-on by hitting the streets to expose its double-speak.
"When serious issues are affecting the country, it is a matter of
shame and regret that parliament is not allowed to function by the
BJP, which is absolutely irresponsible," Congress general
secretary Janardan Dwivedi added, quoting Gandhi.
He was speaking to reporters after the meeting.
Gandhi also said that not letting parliament function was the
handiwork of one opposition party, particularly the BJP, that had
scant respect for democratic values.
The BJP has been disrupting both houses of parliament for the last
six days over its insistence that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
should resign after the official auditor pointed out
irregularities in coal block allocations.
Quoting Gandhi, Dwivedi said: "I have said it many times before
and will say it again: The government and prime minister are
always prepared for discussion and debate on any issue. The BJP is
mocking the people of this country."
Gandhi also hit out at senior BJP leader L.K. Advani for calling
the UPA government "illegitimate".
She noted that the BJP's "our way or no way" method of functioning
was "repulsive" and said: "We must fight wrong criticism and
negative politics of BJP. We have nothing to hide and we must
oppose them."
Congress spokesperson Manish Tewari later told reporters that
lakhs of party workers would "hit the streets" to expose the BJP
"shedding crocodile tears" over the sanctity of constitutional
bodies.
"The BJP has been shedding crocodile tears about the sanctity of
constitutional institutions. Is parliament not a constitutional
institution and their stalling it -- will it not undermine
democracy?" Tewari asked the opposition party.
"Under the directions of party chief Sonia Gandhi, lakhs of
Congress workers will hit the streets to expose the BJP," he said.
Earlier during the on-going monsoon session of parliament, Gandhi
had led from the front to defend her party and government when
Advani had called it "illegitimate" during a debate on the Assam
ethnic violence and forced the BJP leader to withdraw his remarks.
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