NEW DELHI: BJP on Wednesday savaged Rahul Gandhi over his “we are now fighting BJP, RSS and the Indian state itself” remark and said it was straight out of “George Soros’s playbook” of subversion.
Union ministers and BJP functionaries, led by party president J P Nadda, said Rahul Gandhi’s remark at the inauguration of Congress‘s new office had validated the charge of the party being in league with ‘urban Naxals‘ and other subversive elements. “Congress’s ugly truth has been exposed,” Nadda wrote on X immediately after the leader of opposition’s controversial statement started doing the rounds.
Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman and education minister Dharmendra Pradhan soon joined in an aggressive, full-scale “we-told-you-so” response.
Nadda said Rahul has finally exposed his “ugly truth”.
Straight out of Soros’ toolkit: BJP on Rahul’s ‘Indian state’ remark
Nadda said while the links of the Congress MP and his “ecosystem” with ‘urban Naxals’ and ‘the deep state’ who want to “defame, demean and discredit” India were never a secret, Gandhi had finally provided the confirmation.
“Everything that he says and does is geared to break up the country. I compliment Rahul Gandhi for saying clearly what the nation knows – that he is fighting the Indian state,” Nadda said. The BJP president added that Congress had a history of encouraging forces who wanted a weak India.
“Their greed for power meant compromising the nation’s integrity and betraying the trust of the people,” he said, adding that the people of India were “wise”, and they had decided they would always reject Gandhi and “his rotten ideology”. Sitharaman, too, hit out at Gandhi. “The LOP, who was sworn in by taking oath on the Constitution, is now saying, ‘we are now fighting the BJP, the RSS and the Indian state itself’. So, Congress and Rahul Gandhi, what for are you carrying a copy of the Constitution in your hand (sic)?”
Carrying the attack forward, Pradhan said while Gandhi may get a pat on his back from India’s detractors, his remark thoroughly exposed his “dangerous mindset”. He said Gandhi’s philosophy seemed to be that the country deserved to be destroyed if Congress was not in power.
“Such thinking and flawed mentality is the reason why he and his party are continuously being rejected by the people,” Pradhan said. BJP’s IT department head Amit Malviya said, “Rahul Gandhi has now declared an open war against the Indian state itself. This is straight out of George Soros’s playbook.”
