BJP State president Pralhad Joshi has said that All India Congress Committee president Sonia Gandhi had started making abusive remarks against the BJP out of desperation as she was sure of her party’s rout in the Lok Sabha elections.
Addressing presspersons here on Sunday, Mr. Joshi took serious exception to Ms. Gandhi’s “Zeher ki kheti” (sowing seeds of poison) remark in her public speech in Gulbarga on Saturday.
He said that the Congress had not learnt its lesson from its previous mistakes. “During the 2007 Gujarat elections, she had called Narendra Modi as ‘Maut ka soudagar’ and consequently, the Congress was wiped out in Gujarat,” he said.
Mr. Joshi said that because of the seeds of economic reforms sown by the A.B. Vajpayee government at the Centre, the country had recorded a GDP of 8.5 per cent and the UPA government enjoyed it.
However, the UPA government’s corrupt practices and misrule had led to the GDP dropping to 4 per cent, with industrial production being negative, he said.
He called the Congress as being the “most communal” as it had always ruled the country with a divisive agenda and as most communal riots had taken place during its rule.
He urged the Congress to make public the findings of several inquiry commissions on communal riots and the country would come to know who actually was pursuing communal politics.
On Ms. Gandhi’s comment about BJP being corrupt, Mr. Joshi said: “The whole country knows who was responsible for 2G, CWG and coalgate. If there is any headquarters of corruption, then it is the AICC office, without whose recommendations coal blocks could not have been allotted.”
To a query on the former Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa, he said that Mr. Yeddyurappa’s relationship with the party was cordial and he was making all-out efforts to make Mr. Modi the next prime minister.
