new delhi, Aug 18
The BJP on Monday criticised the Opposition saying the Congress and other parties of the INDIA bloc want to spread anarchy and chaos in India with an intent to turn the ‘group of infiltrators’ into their vote bank.
“The Congress and the other Opposition parties want to create a chaotic situation and pandemonium in the country similar to what happened in neighbouring countries, including Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and others, and then make political dividends from it. But they forget that India is a highly enriched civilisation, where people understand the difference between anarchists and upright individuals,” BJP leader Sambit Patra said while addressing a press conference at the party headquarters in the national capital.
Patra also slammed the Opposition political parties for refusing to buy the Election Commission’s reasoning over the Bihar Special Intensive Revision (SIR) controversy, and said their main purpose is to protect, give shelter to the infiltrators and then develop them as their vote bank.
He, however, said the country’s resources are for its citizens, and infiltrators would never be given voting rights.
He said that the Supreme Court has clearly stated that the EC, being a constitutional body, is entitled to make and purify voter rolls, and any objection to it is unacceptable and untenable.
Taunting the ‘Voter Adhikar Yatra’ in Bihar, led by Rahul Gandhi and Tejashwi Yadav, Patra said that they have already done ‘jail yatra’ and ‘bail yatra’, and this march is another attempt to befool the voters. “Two families have themselves committed fraud, but look at their audacity, they are attacking constitutional bodies and accusing them of misdeeds,” Patra said.
He also took strong exception to the Opposition’s press conference where one of the leaders called for the dissolution of the Lok Sabha.
Calling out its duplicity, the BJP leader said that EC has repeatedly asked them to come forward and register their complaints with it, but they never put their grievances on record.
The EC, in a press conference, made a detailed presentation about the SIR, addressing all misgivings regarding technical issues, but those who don’t want to understand will never agree to it, he said.
He said those attacking the poll panel want to create anarchy and chaos in the country, so that they could derive political gains from it.
“They mock every constitutional body in the country.
When the Ram Mandir verdict was announced, they pointed fingers at the Supreme Court judgment and went to the extent of labelling it as biased. They are the same people who questioned the Indian Army’s valour and demanded proof of surgical strikes,” the BJP Lok Sabha MP pointed out.
He also criticised the Congress and other Opposition parties for disrupting the parliamentary proceedings and obstructing the house from conducting a special discussion on Subhanshu Shukla’s space mission.
