Congress party spokesman Jairam Ramesh dubbed Prime Minister Narendra Modi as “Jagadguru” of “politics of black mail” who is “masterminding a conspiracy”, to implicate its leadership in the AgustaWestland case. But this government has destroyed it. Everybody is feeling harassed and sad today.
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” We would like to know from Congress and Ms Gandhi in particular that why is it that whenever any earnest investigation is sought to be done, it is treated as attack on democracy and anti-national”, the Union Minister said. The Congress Chief appealed to her partymen “to reach out to the people and unmask Modi government in a democratic way”.
Attacking the government for ousting the Congress government in Uttarakhand, she said the forest fires in the hill state could not be controlled in time as “there was no government”. We will not allow democratic institutions to be weakened or destroyed. After a quick stop at the police station, they were allowed to drive to the parliament. “I want to tell Nagpur, to those whose instructions run the Narendra Modi government – no matter what you accuse us of, we will not bow down”.
Mr Prime Minister, we have elected you to take action not to leave everything at the mercy of Italy court.
Kejriwal said that both the BJP and Congress had struck a deal, according to which, both parties had agreed not to talk about each other’s corruption.
“They are not in the least bothered about people’s miseries. They had the CBI raid me and at the end of the day all they could find were four mufflers….but even after all this, they will not touch Sonia Gandhi”, Kejriwal said.
It also stepped up attack against the Centre over the revelations on AgustaWestland chopper scam and urged BJP leader Subramanian Swamy to authenticate the materials he had used during his speech in the Rajya Sabha earlier this week. “The reality is that this deal was started during the NDA regime in 1999 and the issue they are talking about bringing down the height of the helicopter from 6000 to 4500 metres, it was done by the NDA government in 2003 and not the UPA”, he said. Everyday, 50 farmers are committing suicide.
When asked to react on pictures of Ms Gandhi’s son-in-law Robert Vadra appearing on posters of Congress workers during the march, he described it as design to “complete the family” and accused him of amassing hundreds of acres of land by allegedly violating rules.
The journalist pointed out that it had to be the Modi government as the formal letter was sent to the court by the Indian embassy in Rome saying that the government was not going in appeal, and hence the instructions could have come only from the government.
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While attempting to change the political narrative, the Congress protest rally was also an effort to energise the party rank and file which has been feeling demoralised after the party’s humiliating defeat in the 2014 Lok Sabha election the subsequent assembly polls.
