New Delhi: With the Congress launching a scathing attack on the ruling NDA at the Centre for destabilising “popular state governments”, Union home minister Rajnath Singh likened the main Opposition party to a boat full of holes, which is “destined to sink when put in waters”.
While replying to a brief intervention of the Congress leader in the Lok Sabha Mr Mallikarjuna Kharge, Mr Singh said: “The Constitutional crisis in Arunachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand was on account of internal problems in the party. The Congress is like that boat which has many holes which, whenever put in waters, would be destined to sink.”
Earlier, Mr Kharge charged that the ruling NDA was attempting a back-door entry in states ruled by the Opposition parties. “Their (BJP) game slogan is a “Congress mukt Bharat” (a country free of the Congress). And to implement the slogan, they have resorted to engineer crises in states. They did it in Arunachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand, but failed to destabilise the Congress governments in Manipur and Himachal Pradesh. Now the Supreme Court has given a resounding answer to such tactics of the Centre,” said Mr Kharge.
Meanwhile, with newspapers failing to hit the stands in Kashmir, Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Venkaiah Naidu spoke to Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti and sought details of the matter.
The Minister spoke to Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister on Monday night on the reported “clampdown” on newspapers in the state. Mehbooba said there was no such ban on the publication of newspapers.
