The BJP today held protests in the party’s headquarters in all states and demanded that Congress chief Mallikarjung Kharge should resign for making “indecent and offensive” remarks on Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
What is most shocking about this entire episode is that these comments were not made by some ordinary Congress worker or a youth leader, but by the national president of a party that claims to be the oldest political party in the country,” Singh said today. In Bihar, a large number of BJP leaders and workers took out a march shouting slogans against Kharge and demanding his resignation. They set on fire an effigy of the Congress chief. In Jammu too, BJP workers burned posters of Kharge and shouted slogans. The BJP is holding a massive protest in Bengaluru’s Freedom Park, demanding an apology from Kharge. “It’s deeply distressing… “The Congress did not stop there; they are hurting people’s sentiments by attempting to justify Kharge ji’s words. Union Minister Pralhad Joshi took a swipe at Congress MP Rahul Gandhi while also at the same time attacking Kharge in the same sentence. The Congress chief’s son and Karnataka minister Priyank Kharge hit back, saying the BJP likes to make issues out of non-issues.
He said the BJP had known about Rahul Gandhi’s immaturity, but now it seems others in the party have also got infected due to keeping bad company.
Condemning Kharge, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said he was shocked and deeply hurt by the comments on PM Modi’s late father. Instead of acknowledging their mistake and expressing regret, the Congress is busy defending and validating this statement,” the defence minister said. “These cultured people have forgotten what Modi and Shah have said in the past. We don’t need to learn culture from them,” he said.
