Congress, allies doing vote-bank politics: BJP
BJP criticized Congress and the INDIA bloc for their protest, accusing them of anti-constitutional activities and vote-bank politics. Dharmendra Pradhan highlighted Congress's despair from repeated defeats and alleged they are promoting chaos by gathering crowds instead of sending representatives to meet with the ECI. He further claimed they are trying to serve their political interests by enlisting infiltrators as voters.
BJP on Monday launched an attack on Congress and INDIA bloc parties over their protest on Monday. Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan said INDIA bloc, especially Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, invokes the Constitution every now and then, but the country is also witnessing that Gandhi is the ringleader of anyone carrying out the highest number of anti-constitutional activities."The Congress party's lack of direction has become its dilemma. SIR is not being conducted for the first time. It is a regular nationwide process of the EC in every state. Since independence, the EC has had an independent and continuous process to refine and organise the electoral roll," Pradhan said at a press conference at the BJP headquarters here. "Congress first lies about EVMs, sometimes raises the issue of Maharashtra, sometimes of Haryana, and builds a new mountain of lies. Congress has reached a state of despair due to the continuous defeats in many states, especially in 2014, 2019, and 2024," he said.
Pradhan accused Congress and its allies of being engaged solely in vote-bank politics. "By making infiltrators into voters, they want to serve their political interests."Pradhan criticised Gandhi for his using words like 'atom bomb' and said that similar vocabulary is being used by the rival country.Talking about the Opposition march, Pradhan alleged that it was akin to promoting chaos in the country.
"According to information I received through the media, ECI allowed 30 representatives to meet. But instead of sending those 30 representatives, you gather a crowd and stage a photo opportunity. Is this not akin to promoting chaos in the country," he asked. He alleged Congress is pained that power has gone outside their (Gandhi) family.
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