BJP BRUTALISING MINORITIES, GLORIFYING KILLERS OF GANDHIJI: SONIA AT CHINTAN SHIVIR

Udaipur: Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi on Friday launched a scathing attack on the Narendra Modi-led BJP government at the Centre stating that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) wants to keep people in a “perpetual state of frenzy” by provoking and instigating”. Gandhi further went ahead and targeted PM Modi’s slogan ‘Maximum governance, minimum government’, saying BJP is viciously targeting and brutalising the minorities of the country.

The remarks of Gandhi came while addressing a three-day ‘Nav Sankalp Chintan Shivir’ in Udaipur, Sonia said that we are not oblivious to the failures we have received. “Nor are we oblivious to the struggles and difficulties that we have to face. We are not ignorant of people’s expectations. We have gathered to take this pledge, we will bring our party in the politics of the country in the same role it has always played, the role expected by the people of the country in this deteriorating time. We are introspecting. Decide that if you leave here, you will leave inspired with a new confidence and commitment,” she said.

Urging members of the party to combat BJP’s divisiveness, Sonia Gandhi said, “Most Indians want to live in an atmosphere of peace, amity and harmony.

BJP, its cohorts and surrogates want to keep people in a perpetual state of frenzy. They constantly provoke, instigate, and inflame.” “We’ve to combat this virus of divisiveness that’s being maliciously spread,” she said while addressing the Chintan Shivir.

Talking about the Shivir, Gandhi said that it is also about “aatmachintan” (introspection) on the issues pertaining to the party. “It is also an occasion to deliberate on the many challenges ahead of us. It is both ‘Chintan’ about national issues and meaningful ‘aatmachintan’ about our party organisation,” she said. The Congress interim president also hit out at BJP and RSS stating that the country is facing numerous “challenges due to their policies” and the Shivir gives the grand-old party an opportunity to discuss those challenges.

Sonia gave the advice to work in the interest of the party and reiterated what was said in CWC recently stressing that the time has come that we have to work under the interests of the organization.