‘Frustration manifesting in his temperament’: BJP attacks Rahul over ‘traitor’ remark on PM

NEW DELHI: Bharatiya Janata Party connected Thursday launched a scathing onslaught connected Leader of Opposition successful the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi aft helium alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union location curate Amit Shah were “traitors” who had worked to “sell India”.BJP president Natin Nabin termed Rahul’s connection “regrettable” and said his continuous electoral defeats and the resulting vexation were present manifesting successful his temperament and character.“Rahul Gandhi’s connection contiguous is profoundly unfortunate and, successful a way, reveals his anarchic mindset. I judge that successful the discourse of Indian politics, wherever propriety and societal harmony are intertwined with the communal respect accorded to 1 another, his connection is genuinely regrettable.

I consciousness that his continuous electoral defeats and the ensuing vexation are present manifesting successful his temperament and character,” Nabin said.“It is this precise desperation and despondency that are driving him to marque specified statements today. I question the mode successful which you take your words: Is the eradication of Naxalism an enactment of treason? Is safeguarding this country's territory an enactment of treason? Is elevating the planetary prestige of India’s Tricolour an enactment of treason?” helium added.

The BJP’s effect came aft Rahul, speaking astatine a rally successful Uttar Pradesh’s Rae Bareli, alleged that the BJP had insulted state fighters specified arsenic Mahatma Gandhi and B. R. Ambedkar. He besides reiterated that the Modi government’s policies had damaged India’s economy.“When these RSS workers travel earlier you, they volition talk of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Amit Shah. Then you indispensable accidental to their faces that your Prime Minister, Home Minister, and the organisation (BJP) are traitors — you person worked to merchantability India,” Rahul said.“They person worked to onslaught the Constitution,” helium added.The Congress person besides accused the Union authorities of weakening MGNREGA, privatising the nationalist sector, and appointing RSS-linked vice-chancellors who, helium alleged, had small cognition of science, past oregon geography, but were chosen due to the fact that of their ideological affiliation.Rahul further alleged that the Constitution’s rule of “one person, 1 vote” was being undermined done peculiar intensive revision of electoral rolls and the deletion of “crores of votes”.“Those who bash not ballot for them are being removed from elector lists… The Constitution is nether onslaught 24 hours,” helium said.“But the information is present emerging and nary 1 volition beryllium spared,” helium added.