BJP protests LS washout, blames Cong for disruption

At a dharna in the holy city’s Bhandari Bridge, Union Minister Vijay Sampla, the main speaker at the protest, said the Congress was more dangerous than Pakistan as he blamed the opposition for the disruption.

PERSONAL attacks, references to Nehru and Pakistan were the order of the day as the BJP took on the Congress over the washout of Parliament’s monsoon session, in Amritsar on Monday.

At a dharna in the holy city’s Bhandari Bridge, Union Minister Vijay Sampla, the main speaker at the protest, said the Congress was more dangerous than Pakistan as he blamed the opposition for the disruption. “The Congress is a threat to the nation from the inside. Its 44 MPs want to stop the development of the nation. The Congress is more dangerous than Pakistan in many ways,” Sampla told the gathering.

He took a dig at the Nehru-Gandhi family before making a personal attack on the Amritsar MP, the Congress’ Captain Amarinder Singh. “We do not know where Captain was during the Monsoon Session. Maybe he was with his friend from Pakistan. We counted only 43 Congress MPs in Parliament as Captain, despite being the party’s deputy leader in the Lok Sabha, was absent for unknown reasons,” Sampla said.

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Speaking before Sampla, the BJP’s MP from Jammu Jugal Kishore Sharma slammed the Nehru-Gandhi family for the impasse in Parliament. “The Nehru-Gandhi family has always worked for their personal gain by harming national interests. The story of the Gandhi family’s betrayal dates back to 1947 when Jawaharlal Nehru had forced partition of India and Pakistan. The Congress has once again been successful in its policy to disrupt parliament during monsoon session by going against national interests,” Jugal said.

There were, however, more leaders than workers at the BJP dharna.

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