'Should First Provide Justice To...': BJP Tears Into Congress As Rahul Embarks On Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra

The BJP’s scathing attack came on a day when Gandhi embarked on his second largescale outreach campaign from Manipur and Milind Deora left Congress to join Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena in Maharashtra.

Union Minister Anurag Thakur

Source : PTI

New Delhi: Taking a dig at Congress over its Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra, BJP said the grand old party should first consider providing justice to the leaders who abandoned them instead of promoting Rahul Gandhi and hold of Gandhi-Nehru dynasty. The BJP’s scathing attack came on a day when Gandhi embarked on his second largescale outreach campaign from Manipur and Milind Deora left Congress to join Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena in Maharashtra.

Terming the yatra as a “hoax” Union Minister Anurag Thakur said while Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi make tall claims on “nyay”, leaders are leaving Congress for being deprived of justice.

“There is a long list of leaders who have left the Congress as they are not getting justice in the party. Now, Milind Deora too has left the Congress. The Nyay Yatra of the Congress is a hoax. Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi talk of justice to the people, but the reality is Congress leaders themselves are deprived of justice,” news agency PTI quoted Thakur as saying.

“On the contrary, everyone in the BJP gets due respect and that is the reason why someone in the party is a chief minister, someone is a Union minister, someone is an MP and someone is an MLA," he added.

Taking potshots at the party, Union minister Kiren Rijiju questioned whether the yatra was aimed at reuniting or diving the country.

Taking to X, Rijiju wrote, “Rahul Gandhi is going to the Northeast but has he apologised for supporting those gangs who openly want to cut the Northeast from the rest of the Country?”

BJP national general secretary Dushyant Gautam claimed the Congress embarked on its second leg of the rally to promote Rahul Gandhi and maintain the “dynastic politics”.

“What kind of a 'nyay yatra' is it? Are you doing it to mete out justice to lakh of people who died due to the Partition of the country by your forefathers, to those who died in the Bhopal gas leak incident, or to the Sikhs who were killed in the 1984 riots,” PTI quoted Gautam as saying.

The BJP leader further said that there are two sections of leaders in the country. One that pledges allegiance to the Gandhi family and another which “owes allegiance to the country and is joining Modi ji for the progress of India to make it a developed country by 2047”.

BJP IT cell head Amit Malviya also took a dig at the yatra and said Gandhi should first provide justice to his party leaders.