Saddening to see leaders like Ghulam Nabi Azad being ‘castigated’ by Congress: BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra

The BJP Tuesday took a swipe on the Congress amid a vocal dissidence inside the opposition social gathering, saying its ideology is all about fulfilling the Gandhi household’s “ambition”, and anybody talking in opposition to it or standing with the “rightful” agenda of Prime Minister Narendra Modi is castigated.
BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra instructed a press convention that the Congress will “castigate” anybody who desires democracy within the social gathering, desires its president to be elected, speaks in favour of politics of growth or stands with Modi’s rightful agenda.
While stating that the ‘G-23’, a reference to the group of 23 Congress leaders who’ve pushed for an organisational overhaul within the social gathering, is an inside matter of the opposition social gathering, Patra stated it’s “saddening” to see senior leaders like Ghulam Nabi Azad and others being focused.
The Congress is now all about 4 leaders, he alleged, referring to its president Sonia Gandhi, her son Rahul and daughter Priyanka Gandhi Vadra — each social gathering basic secretaries — and Priyanka’s husband Robert Vadra.

“Their only agenda is ‘hate Modi’. It has grown to such an extent that Congress workers are protesting on the streets against their own leaders who have praised good works of Modi,” he stated, mocking Rahul Gandhi as an “empty missile”.
Patra’s feedback, in a solution to a query, got here after Azad praised Modi at an occasion in Jammu on Saturday, saying he speaks frankly about his previous as a tea-seller and doesn’t attempt to disguise his background from the world.
Another senior Congress chief Anand Sharma had on Monday slammed the social gathering’s tie-up with Indian Secular Front (ISF) led by Muslim cleric Abbas Siddiqui in West Bengal, saying it was in opposition to the social gathering’s core ideology and Gandhian and Nehruvian secularism.
Congress employees in Jammu on Tuesday set ablaze an effigy of Azad and accused him of conspiring in opposition to the social gathering on the behest of the BJP to weaken it for “personal gains”.
Patra additionally hit out on the Congress over its alliances in several states, saying they’re solely geared toward sustaining the Gandhi household’s relevance.
The Congress has tied up with a “maulana’s” social gathering (Indian Secular Front) and the Left in West Bengal, whereas its preventing the Left in Kerala, he stated.

The opposition social gathering can also be working to strike an alliance with Badruddin Ajmal’s AIDUF in Assam and has joined arms with the Shiv Sena in Maharashtra, he famous.
“It (the Congress) has no ideology. Its only ideology is corruption and nepotism and to come to power anyhow,” he stated.
Such alliances spotlight the Congress’s “doublespeak and utmost hypocrisy”, he stated.