Congress hits back at BJP for ‘unparliamentary attack’

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Posted online: Thursday , January 31, 2008 at 02:30:55
Updated: Thursday , January 31, 2008 at 02:47:56

New Delhi, January 30: Congress on Thursday hit back at the BJP for its 'unparliamentary attack' on its leaders, including party president Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, and asserted that it will continue to work with Left allies to uphold secular democracy.

Joining issue with the BJP, which accused the Manmohan Singh government of failures, Congress said several problems had originated during the previous NDA government and the present dispensation was 'struggling' to undo it.

AICC spokesperson Jayanthi Natarajan dubbed as 'insinuations' BJP leader L K Advani's allegation that Sonia Gandhi was responsible for ‘Kremlinisation of Indian politics’ by making the Left parties an important player in the nation's polity.

Describing Left parties as important allies, she said "the Congress will continue to work hard to protect secular democracy with support from all secular forces, including the Left."

Defending the relationship between the Congress and the Left parties, she said: "This is a very peculiar characterisation of a natural process of coalition."

Natarajan, who responded virtually point-by-point to BJP's allegations, took a dig at the NDA, saying it too was a coalition consisting of 24 parties, "which of course does not exist any more."

During the BJP National Council meeting here on Wednesday, Advani had likened the UPA to a driver-less 'motorcar' whose brakes were with the Left parties.

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Anti_Hindu Congress by Anonymous on 26 Feb 2008

Friends, the fact remains that Bharat is SECULAR ONLY ON PAPER. The present govt is ANTI-HINDU. Please watch "Secularism in India Exposed" on www.youtube.com. The video clearly highlights the disgusting (true) pseudo-secular state of Bharat today. Thank you, friends. Jai Hind!

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Stop political mud-slinging by P.P. TALWAR on 03 Feb 2008

It is time the "party with a differece" that is BJP had learnt to be secular and practical, rather than harping on communal slogans like Hindutva which will only prove suicidal for BJP in the next Lok Sabha Polls due in 2009. Political mud-slinging by the BJP will back-fire on themselves, eventually.

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Religion is scoring political points by Raju on 02 Feb 2008

When they are calling for secular doemocracy, what reason EC has to see and offence,when any other pary want to bring in religious democracy? Now demining Hindus in India is political agenda of so called secularists, why not BJP can talk of Hindu glories?

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Congress is an anti-hindu organization by Vidhur on 31 Jan 2008

Congress is an anti-hindu organization, it work under the banner of bogus secularism. Left are known anti-national force, since it inception. For the last three years, Congress under anti-hindu Italian christian woman, only agenda is to promote Islamists-christianism in the country and suppress, oppress and persecute Hindus. Hindu persecution and humiliation has reached to extreme limit with filing of affidavit to Supreme Court declaring Sri Ram does not exist and Ramayan is a fiction. Religion-based reservations for muslims-chrsitians, printing of Jesus Cross on rupee two coin, filing affidavit to SC are secularism. Hindus are treated as slaves by the Italian Congress, as British treated during colonial rule. Hindus will not tolerate any longer. Days of anti-Hindu Congress is numbered. Polarization of Hindus is a must to save Bharat and HIndu dharma.

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