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Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses a public meeting ahead of the assembly election in Puducherry. (FILE)
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday launched a scathing attack on the Congress over its tie-up with Indian Secular Front (ISF) of Muslim cleric Abbas Siddiqui for the upcoming Assembly polls in West Bengal. Party spokesperson Sambit Pata said that the grand old party has become irrelevant and that it is entering electoral pacts with parties like ISF to ‘retain the Gandhi family’s political relevance’.
“Today, the Congress depends on the alliance to maintain its relevance. One such alliance is being done by Rahul Gandhiji and his Congress party in Bengal. All the alliances that Congress has formed have not been done for any good performance, good reforms or good governance. These alliances were done only to somehow retain the Gandhi family’s political relevance,” Patra said.
“The Congress, which describes itself as secular, forms an alliance with the ISF in Bengal, it joins the Muslim League in Kerala and Badruddin’s party in Assam,” he added.
Attacking Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, he said, “Rahul had once said that ‘yes, we are a party of Muslims’. But it is not even a party of Muslims, it is only a party of the family.”
The BJP leader said that there is no tolerance in the Congress as he referred to protests against its own party leader Ghulam Nabi Azad. “Congress has only one agenda – hate Modi,” he said.
Patra’s attack came after a war of words between two senior Congress leaders — Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury and Anand Sharma over alliance with ISF. The Congress party is contesting the West Bengal assembly elections in alliance with the Left and ISF but is fighting the CPI-M in Kerala as the principal opposition party.
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