Karnataka minister Priyank Kharge on Saturday hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his participation in a ‘Bhajan clubbing’ event in the Capital on Friday, alleging the latter has time for such events but not to answer “serious questions”.
Other opposition outfits have also announced protests. Kharge questioned PM Narendra Modi ‘s presence at the ‘Bhajan clubbing’ event, saying that while the Prime Minister has time for this, he is silent on questions surrounding the Election Commission. Celebrations get his presence. Accountability gets his silence,” the Karnataka home minister added. Congress workers staged demonstrations across several states , including Jammu and Kashmir, Assam, Uttarakhand, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh and Manipur, against the functioning of the Election Commission and its handling of the SIR exercise.
“For 13 years, there has been a familiar pattern: when difficult questions confront the government, the Prime Minister is conspicuously absent from answering them. The opposition has been demanding the Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar’s resignation in the wake of an Indian Express investigation, which reported that Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi had objected on record at least 14 times over the last 10 months to decisions and orders they said were issued without their knowledge.
The BJP accused the Congress leader of mocking and insulting India’s heritage of “bhajan” and “bhakti”. “Does Junior Kharge have even an iota of courage to talk about clubbing accountability of Rahul Gandhi with Congress party’s dismal electoral failures, because under Rahul Gandhi’s dismal leadership, the Congress party has lost 3 consecutive Lok Sabha elections and suffered nearly 100 Assembly drubbings,” the BJP spokesperson said.
