New Delhi: Taking a jibe at the Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday dubbed it as “parivar bachao working committee”.
“It will not be wrong to say that it was less a Congress Working Committee and more a ‘parivar bachao working committee’ (save family working committee),” BJP spokesperson Gaurav Bhatia said.
Alleging that the CWC meeting offered no answers to the issues of the internal rift within the grand old party and the failures of its leadership, the BJP said it instead indulged in spreading lies.
The BJP spokesperson alleged the anarchic elements are using the farmers for their politics and criticized the CWC for not reacting to the ghastly murder of a Dalit man at the Singhu border, one of the sites where the farmers have been protesting.
He asked if the opposition Congress party stood with the “Talibani mindset” behind the killing.
“For the sake of petty and cheap vote bank politics, opposition parties, especially the Congress, will maintain deafening silence on this key issue,” said Bhatia, PTI reported.
“They will not have courage to call spade a spade because it does not suit their political narrative,” he added.
The BJP spokesperson also taunted Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi over her remarks that she is the “full-time and hands-on” party chief.
Bhatia alleged that Gandhi’s opening remarks at the CWC meeting did not touch on a host of issues facing the grand old party and left unanswered the questions of people about the Congress-run governments in different states.
In an apparent reference to Gandhi’s criticism of Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government over a host of issues, including three farm laws, the state of the economy, the violence in Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur Kheri and the killings in Jammu and Kashmir, the BJP spokesperson said the Congress again advanced the politics of lies and spreading confusion.
He also cited the police baton-charge on a group of protesting farmers in the Congress-ruled states of Punjab and Rajasthan to justify his assertion.
Noting that a law on contract farming brought in by Punjab says that farmers can be arrested for breaking the agreement, Bhatia said this is what a “black law” is, adding the Congress interim president should ensure that it is withdrawn.
He also lashed out at Gandhi for not visiting Rai Bareli, her parliamentary constituency, for over 21 months and alleged that she has been a failure as a Member of Parliament.
Bhatia also mocked Gandhi for her statement that all the CWC members are now doubly vaccinated, paving the way for its first physical meeting since the Covid-19 outbreak in the country.
Questioning the opposition’s criticism of the Centre’s vaccination policies, the BJP spokesperson said the Congress should offer words of thanks to the scientists and doctors when 100 crore doses of Covid-19 vaccines are completed in a few days.