Kolkata, June 15 (Agencies): BJP President Nitin Gadkari brought a personal edge to his party’s anti-graft campaign when he said on Wednesday that Congress chief Sonia Gandhi’s assurance to fight corruption was akin to Pakistan saying it will fight terrorism. At a party convention in Kolkata, Gadkari insisted no Congress worker believes what the President says just as no one in Pakistan believes their government. Keeping the tone stringent, Gadkari next said Sonia Gandhi had become the “symbol of fascism”.
“But if the UPA government is trying to impose an Emergency like situation, then we shall not sit idle,” he added. He voiced the oft-repeated BJP refrain that Congress was a “mother-son party” and the rest were servants. Addressing BJP workers at a party convention here, Gadkari said Ramdev’s forcible eviction from the Ramlila Maidan suggests “it is a crime in this country to say: remove corruption, bring back black money”. “What happened in Ramlila maidan was Ravanlila,” he said. The BJP president also took a swipe at Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee who had recently criticised the BJP and RSS for providing the infrastructure to the civil society movement. “Pranabda wants to become the Prime Minister. May be, he can. But he can’t be the President of Congress. That post is reserved for the Gandhi family,” he said.
