Cong hits back at Modi’s ‘death merchant’ remark
The Congress party on Sunday hit back at Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi for “dragging” Mrs Sonia Gandhi into the issue of Bhopal gas tragedy case and charged the BJP leader with practising “disruptive, divisive and a low level of politics”.
“Narendra Modi has always practised disruptive, divisive and a low level of politics and we reject his suggestions with contempt,” Congress spokesperson Jayanthi Natarajan told reporters when asked to react to Modi’s comments at a BJP rally in Patna during the day .
Attacking the Congress chief over her “silence” on the Bhopal gas tragedy verdict, Mr Modi asked her to explain who was the maut ka saudagar (merchant of death).
Mrs Sonia Gandhi had during the campaign for the 2007 Gujarat Assembly polls called Mr Modi a merchant of death for the 2002 riots in the state in the aftermath of the Godhra train carnage.
“This is the brand of intellectually, morally and politically bankrupt politics which is being practised by Narendra Modi. There is absolutely no moral right on Mr Modi’s part for dragging in Soniaji after 26 years of the Bhopal tragedy, when she was not in politics at the time he was talking about,” she said, adding the BJP itself had a lot of explaining to do on the issue.
Ms Natrajan further said that Mr Modi’s brand of politics had brought him to a stage when his own alliance partner, Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar, refused to share platform with him, and the Gujarat CM goes to the extent of placing false advertisementss. “The BJP itself has a great deal to answer regarding what has the BJP done in the last 26 years in Bhopal?” she said.
Ms Natarajan said her party had made it clear that the government had set up a group of ministers, who will once again go into the issue and that the party wanted all the facts to come out in the Bhopal tragedy episode.
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