Won’t allow emergency, Congress a fascist party: Gadkari
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Describing the crackdown on Baba Ramdev’s hunger strike in New Delhi as the Congress party’s “fascism”, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Nitin Gadkari on Wednesday called the ruling party
as one of “mother and son”, and said the BJP would not allow Sonia Gandhi’s ploy to impose emergency in the country.
“The incident which happened at the Ramlila ground is Ravan Lila. The crackdown on Baba Ramdev’s fast programme reveals the restlessness of the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government. What happened is fascism and cannot be tolerated. The BJP will not tolerate it,” said Gadkari while addressing party workers here.
“What kind of atrocity is this? Old people, children, and women were beaten up as they demanded the return of black money stacked in foreign countries. The Congress talks about the non-violent movement of Gandhiji and this is what you get when you conduct a non-violent movement,” said Gadkari. “Earlier, the Congress had imposed emergency. The people of the India still remember that black chapter. I want to say that if Soniaji (Congress chief) tries to move away from the path of democracy and tries to impose emergency, we will not tolerate it,” he said. Gadkari called the Congress “a party of mother and son” and said that except the Gandhis everybody in the Congress party are “servants" of that family.
“This Congress party is a party of mother and son. Everybody in this party, except the Gandhis, are servants of this family. Nobody is a leader except a Gandhi, others are servants. They are ordered by their madam (Sonia Gandhi) to serve and they serve,” said Gadkari. “It is as if from a womb of a Prime Minister another prime minister is born. A son of leader will be a leader, a son of a minister will be a minister. We have seen Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi now we are seeing Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi. Then again, we will see some other Gandhi,” said Gadkari.
Gadkari also took potshots at Union finance minister and Congress stalwart Pranab Mukherjee, saying that he can become a Prime Minister of India someday but he can never adorn the post of Congress president. “Pranab-da has a wish of becoming the Prime Minister of India. He may get that post someday but he will never become a Congress president because that post is reserved for a Gandhi only,” said Gadkari.
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