Congress eager on ‘exposing’ BJP, to carry press conferences throughout 22 cities in India

By PTI

NEW DELHI: Seeking to nook the ruling BJP over the problem of terror and its alleged hyperlinks with terrorists, the Congress will on Saturday maintain a sequence of press conferences in 22 cities throughout the nation.

Congress leaders stated the purpose is to counter the BJP’s “fake nationalism claims” and to take the message to the grassroots degree that the ruling occasion has “connections” with people who’ve indulged in heinous crimes and terror acts.

“Today, 22 of our senior leaders and spokespersons will hold press conferences in 22 cities to expose the “hyperlinks of terrorists with BJP”,” Congress basic secretary Jairam Ramesh stated in a tweet in Hindi, alleging that “evidence of terrorists having links with the BJP has come out”.

“The BJP has links with terrorists, what is this relationship called?” he posed within the tweet.

भाजपा के साथ आतंकवादियों के रिश्तों का पर्दाफाश करने के लिए आज हमारे 22 वरिष्ठ नेता और प्रवक्ता 22 शहरों में प्रेस कांफ्रेंस करेंगे।

एक के बाद एक कई आतंकवादियों के तार भाजपा से जुड़ने के सबूत मिले हैं।

भाजपा का आतंकवादियों से नाता है, यह रिश्ता क्या कहलाता है? pic.twitter.com/NEBD5UVv5R

— Jairam Ramesh (@Jairam_Ramesh) July 9, 2022

The Congress has alleged that Riyaz Attari, one of many prime accused within the killing of tailor Kanhaiya Lal in Rajasthan’s Udaipur was a BJP member. It has additionally launched his pictures purportedly with BJP leaders in Rajasthan.

The BJP, nonetheless, has denied any hyperlink with such components and claimed that a few of them had clicked footage with its leaders after infiltrating the occasion ranks.

The Congress additionally claimed that Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist Talib Hussain Shah who was nabbed by individuals in Reasi city in Srinagar lately was an office-bearer of the BJP’s minority cell in Jammu and Kashmir, a cost denied by the BJP management within the Union Territory.

Congress chief Pawan Khera has requested how Talib Hussain Shah, who was allegedly planning to assault the Amarnath Yatra in Kashmir, was seen in {a photograph} with Amit Shah. He puzzled whether or not it was not a safety breach.

This is the second sequence of press conferences being organised by Congress after the primary such effort was made towards the brand new Agnipath navy recruitment scheme.

The Congress has determined to take the BJP head-on over problems with nationwide significance, and the occasion will proceed to carry countrywide pressers to take its message to the individuals and to “expose” the claims of the BJP.

Top Congress leaders who’re going to deal with the press conferences embody Rajya Sabha MP Deepender Singh Hooda in Ahmedabad, Shaktisinh Gohil in Jaipur, Ajoy Kumar in Mumbai, Uttar Kumar Reddy in Bangalore, former Union minister M M Pallam Raju in Chennai, media and publicity head Pawan Khera in Raipur, Rajeev Gowda in Kolkata, Ranjeet Ranjan in Guwahati and Saptagiri Sankar Ulaka in Visakhapatnam.