BJP hits out at Congress stir

New Delhi: Top BJP leaders on Friday hit back at the Congress over the Opposition party's nationwide protest against price rise and unemployment, saying that the stir is essentially aimed at saving the Gandhi family from corruption charges. Reacting to Rahul Gandhi's remark that India is witnessing the death of democracy, BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad accused the Congress leader of making "shameful" and "irresponsible" comments. Prasad asked Rahul Gandhi to not blame Indian democracy for his party's repeated poll defeats under his leadership.

He pointed out that it was Rahul Gandhi's grandmother, then Prime Mminister Indira Gandhi, who had suspended people's democratic rights by imposing Emergency. "Why do you blame democracy when the people of India reject you with repeated regularity?," Prasad asked. He also asked Gandhi if there is democracy within his party which has some "good leaders" but it is all about the Gandhi family.

Prasad added, "Stop demeaning the institutions of India to safeguard your corruption and misdeeds... If people don't listen to you why are you blaming us?" Union minister Anurag Thakur also voiced a rejoinder to the Congress and said that the protests from Parliament to the streets cannot turn the truth of corruption charges against its leaders into a lie.

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