BJP targets Cong over graft,skirts ‘saffron’ terror

The RSS too claimed that it does not attach much importance to the charges levelled against it but slammed Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh for claiming that the outfit has been trying to enter its activists into the Army. “He has cast serious aspersions on the very character of the Indian Army. Even Pakistan has never gone to that extent. Singh has given a handle to Pakistan to attack India now,” RSS leader Ram Madhav said.

Gadkari and party spokesperson Nirmala Sitharaman — who addressed the media to present the BJP’s response — did not directly counter the charges levelled by the Congress against the RSS.

Sitharaman did refer to Gandhi’s mention about the threat of minority and majority communalism and said it seems there was a churning in the Congress on what constitutes terror in its definition and pointed out that the party which has so far been distancing itself from Singh’s utterances today gave him an official forum for such talks. Gadkari said Gandhi’s speech sounded like the “reaction of a party under siege”.

“She has attempted to mislead the people by voicing the very same questions which have been asked by the Opposition in the Budget and the Winter session of Parliament. Has she forgotten that she is the president of the party in power at the Centre? She has chosen not to answer on how several scandals of corruption have come to the fore during UPA II,” Gadkari said.