Hyderabad : BJP national president Rajnath Singh on Tuesday said that the time has come for the country to have a “Congress-free nation” and ensure a clear majority for the Narendra Modi-led BJP in the coming polls.
Mr Rajnath Singh said the Congress led UPA government was in depression since it was pretty sure it would not form the next government at the Centre and hence was indulging in verbal attacks on the BJP and its leaders.
Mr Singh demanded the Congress make public the Thakkar Commission repport, which has been kept under wraps, so that the world would know who was behind the murder of former prime minister Indira Gandhi.
“When someone is in depression, they indulge in abuses,” he remarked. “The Congress has lost mental balance. How can the UPA chairperson call BJP a zaheerala (poisonous) party? How can Rahul Gandhi say RSS killed Mahatma Gandhi? Let them read history books. After Mahatma Gandhi’s killing, the RSS was banned, but the Kapoor Commission gave it a clean chit. There should be honest politics and not dirty politics,” Mr Singh said.
Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley, BJP spokesman Prakash Javadekar, state BJP president G. Kishan Reddy, Bandaru Dattatreya, E. Laxminarayana, Srinivas Reddy, Dr Nagam Janardhan Reddy and other prominent BJP leaders all echoed the same mantra that Telangana would never have become a reality if the BJP had not supported the Bill.
The BJP national president was greeted with 272-plus drums (the magic figure required to form the government at the Centre). Organisers estimated that the crowd for the BJP meeting would be around 20,000.
Party leaders presented a huge garland, pagree, bow and arrow and a portrait of Lord Venkateshwara to Mr Singh. He however curtly refused to pull out a sword.
The ground was full of cut-outs of prominent BJP leaders, Narender Modi, Rajnath Singh, Advani, Arun Jaitley, Kishan Reddy, Sushma Swaraj but there was no placard or photo of M. Venkaiah Naidu, who hails from Seemandhra region.
He said no leader in free India had faced so many allegations as Gujarat Chief Minister Mr Narendra Modi did, and he described Mr Modi as a diamond which shines more due to cuts. “The spate of allegations has only made our prime ministerial candidate to shine more like a diamond,” he said.
