Stop Blaming Indian Democracy For People’s Repeated Rejection Of You: BJP To Rahul Gandhi

If people saw dictatorship, it was during the Emergency when people, including opposition leaders and editors, were jailed, judges superseded and censorship imposed. Indira Gandhi had then spoken about having a “committed judiciary,” he said. “Why do you blame democracy when people of India reject you with repeated regularity,” he added and asked Gandhi if there is democracy within his party which has some “good leaders” but it is all about the Gandhi family.

Rahul Gandhi had made all kinds of allegations against Modi during the 2019 polls as well but people elected him with a bigger mandate, he said. Raking up the Enforcement Directorate’s case against him and Congress president Sonia Gandhi, Prasad said he must answer as to how Young Indian, a firm in which the two Gandhis have a 76 percent stake, allegedly acquired National Herald’s assets worth over Rs 5,000 crore with the investment of only Rs 5 lakh.

 The judiciary refused to quash charges against him and others in the case, and he is now blaming institutions, the BJP leader said. “You will have to face trial and answer the ED’s questions,” he said.

The government under Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been taking strong measures against corruption, and the Congress and the system around it are rattled because democracy has become synonymous with financial irregularities when the opposition party was in power, he alleged.

He noted the assets allegedly acquired by several opposition leaders and their associates through graft have been seized by the ED in different places ranging from Delhi to Mumbai and Kolkata.