Expose 'Blatant Lie' Of Congress Leaders Over Rafale Deal: Nadda To Party Workers

Nadda, who visited the state for the first time after being made national working president, urged party functionaries to expose the "blatant lie" of Congress leaders over the Rafale deal that has hurt the country's image abroad

Expose 'Blatant Lie' Of Congress Leaders Over Rafale Deal: Nadda To Party Workers/ Photo Courtesy: PTI

Uttarakhand: BJP working president JP Nadda, while addressing party's core group in a meeting at Uttarakhand, advised BJP office bearers, MLAs, booth presidents to reach out to people and take important achievements of the BJP government like the abrogation of Article 370 provisions in Jammu and Kashmir to them. Nadda, who visited the state for the first time after being made national working president, urged party functionaries to expose the "blatant lie" of Congress leaders over the Rafale deal that has hurt the country's image abroad. "You need to tell people how 106 laws which could not be implemented in Jammu and Kashmir due to the existence of Article 370 had come into force there after the abrogation of its provisions. You need to tell people how the party had performed well in Panchayat BDC polls in Jammu and Kashmir, winning 81 out of a total of 300 seats, besides putting up a great show in terrorist hotbeds like Shopian, Kupwara and Srinagar," he told the meeting. "BJP will hold demonstrations at all the district headquarters in Uttarakhand, as in the rest of the country tomorrow to demand the apology of Rahul Gandhi for lying to the country on the Rafale deal," party leader Shyam Jaju, who is in-charge of the party affairs in Uttarakhand told reporters after coming out of the meeting. The party leaders who attended the meeting said Nadda congratulated BJP workers for its good performance in Uttarakhand panchayat elections. Earlier, Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant, on Friday, had said that former Congress President Rahul Gandhi tried to create unnecessary "tamasha" (ruckus) over the Rafale deal. "The Supreme Court has proved now that there was no substance to the allegations. Rahul Gandhi had unnecessarily made an issue out of it for his own advantage and had made a 'tamasha' here," Sawant told reporters. "Goans and people across the country know how clean our then Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar was. His contribution to the state and the nation during his small tenure of two and a half years as Defence Minister, there has been no stain on his political career," Sawant also said. The "tamasha" which Sawant referred to was in connection with Gandhi's controversial "courtesy" visit to Goa this January to meet the late Parrikar, who was then ailing with a terminal disease.