NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party hit back at the leader of opposition in Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, over his another “vote chori” allegations, this time in Haryana polls. Union minister Kiren Rijiju mocked the Congress leader’s repeated claims, quipping, “why doesn’t his atom bomb ever explode?”“Rahul Gandhi says that the atom bomb is going to explode, but why doesn’t his atom bomb ever explode? He doesn’t take any subject seriously and even says that a hydrogen bomb will explode,” he said addressing a press conference on Wednesday.
He went on to highlight past comments by Haryana Congress leaders who had foreseen a weak performance for the party, pointing to apparent infighting within the state unit during the elections.”In Haryana, elections were underway, and at the same time, senior Congress leader Kumari Selja said that Congress would not be able to win in Haryana because the party’s own leaders want to defeat it. Just three days ago, a former minister from Haryana resigned from Congress and made the same statement, that Congress cannot win because its own leaders are working against it. The head of the Haryana Congress, Rao Narendra Singh, also said that there is no coordination within the party at the grassroots level. How can they win like this?” Rijiju said.”When their own leaders admit that they are losing because of themselves, and here Rahul Gandhi is saying that the vote was stolen and is abusing the Election Commission, who will believe him? They do not learn any lessons even after losing elections repeatedly. Many Congress leaders have met us privately; they are disappointed and say that as long as Rahul Gandhi remains their leader, Congress cannot win,” he added. Earlier in the day, Rahul announced that the party had compiled evidence under “H Files,” detailing how BJP had “stolen” the mandate in the Haryana Assembly elections.“We have the word ‘H’ Files and this is about how an entire state has been stolen. We suspected that this is not happening in individual constituencies, but at the state level and at the national level,” Rahul had said.Rijiju, in turn, questioned the integrity of the Congress party’s wins over the years at the Centre, saying whether the grand old party win was obtained through “vote chori”. Go to Source
