Farmers Movement Archive

BJP mocks Congress with ‘Parivar bachao working committee’ jibe

NEW DELHI: BJP on Saturday dubbed the Congress Working Committee meeting as “parivar bachao working committee”, alleging that it offered no answers to the issues of the party’s internal rift and its leadership’s failures, and instead indulged in spreading lies. BJP spokesperson Gaurav Bhatia also criticised the CWC for not reacting to the brutal murder of a Dalit man at the Singhu border, one of the sites for the farmers’ protests, and questioned if the opposition party stood with the “Talibani mindset” behind the killing. “Anarchic elements are using farmers for their politics, Bhatia said. The BJP leader said for the sake of petty and cheap vote-bank politics, opposition parties, especially Congress, will maintain deafening silence on this issue. “They will not have the courage to call a spade a spade because it does not suit their political narrative,” Bhatia said while also attacking farmer leader Rakesh Tikait for his reported remarks that organisers cannot be blamed for such an incident. Taking a swipe at Sonia Gandhi over her assertion that she was a “full-time and hands on” Congress chief, he noted her status as the interim president of the organisation and the demand of the group of disaffected party members, referred to as G-23, that it should have a full-time head. “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),” he said, alleging that Gandhi’s opening remarks did not touch on a host of issues facing the party and left unanswered people’s questions about Congress-run governments in different states.

The Times of India

2021-10-17

India