19 Dec 2010
SONIA SOUNDS CONG UNDER SIEGE, SAYS BJP CHIEF
From Our Delhi Bureau
NEW DELHI: Bhartiya Janata Party President Nitin Gadkari on Sunday said Congress President Sonia Gandhi's speech at the AICC plenary here "sounds like reaction of a party under siege."
"Instead of answering the calls from the people on core issues, we see her replicating the Congress conduct when they were under attack for the Bofors scandal," he said in a statement issued here.
He wondered if she had forgotten that she is president of the party in power at the Centre, by voicing the very same questions which the Opposition asked the Congress in the budget session and winter sessions of Parliament. She has attempted to only mislead the people, he affirmed.
Asserting that Sonia Gandhi chose not to answer on how several scandals of corruption came to fore during UPA II, Gadkari decried her for dubbing the BJP's demand for the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) inquiry as "political blackmail." "A Congress party which imposed the state of emergency can only use such language for the legitimate demands of the Opposition," he said.
The Congress Party is increasingly getting alienated from the people and therefore it is interested in deflecting the people’s attention from its failures, he claimed, asserting that Sonia Gandhi cannot push under carpet the issues facing the nation, be it corruption, non-performance of the UPA II government, government's alienation from people and distrust among the Congress and its allies.
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