By PTI
RAIPUR: Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel on Friday lashed out on the Bharatiya Janata Party after an MLA from the saffron social gathering in Karnataka known as Sonia Gandhi a ‘vishkanya’.
Talking to reporters proper right here, Baghel said, “It appears that the BJP has the right to speak against others, but if anyone speaks about them then there is a problem.”
The Congress has demanded the expulsion of the BJP chief, Basangouda Patil Yatnal, asserting that his remarks are the “worst kind” of sacrilege and abuse in opposition to Gandhi on the “instance of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai”.
“The modus operandi of BJP is clear. They target Sonia Gandhi every time. Their (BJP) national leaders have made baseless remarks against her (Sonia Gandhi) several times,” CM Baghel said.
The ‘vishkanya’ jibe in opposition to Gandhi by Yatnal, who’s the Bijapur MLA and former minister, at a poll rally acquired right here a day after Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge in distinction Prime Minister Narendra Modi with a ‘poisonous snake’.
Campaigning in Karnataka for the May 10 assembly polls is in full swing and the Congress seeks to wrest power from the BJP throughout the state.
Karnataka is the one southern state the place the BJP is in power.
“The country wants to know what PM Narendra Modi and (home minister) Amit Shah have to say now,” said Baghel, together with that Congress employees in Chhattisgarh had been considering submitting a police grievance.
Asked about Kharge’s snake remark in opposition to the PM, Baghel said the Congress president has “withdrawn” it.
RAIPUR: Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel on Friday lashed out on the Bharatiya Janata Party after an MLA from the saffron social gathering in Karnataka known as Sonia Gandhi a ‘vishkanya’.
Talking to reporters proper right here, Baghel said, “It appears that the BJP has the right to speak against others, but if anyone speaks about them then there is a problem.”
The Congress has demanded the expulsion of the BJP chief, Basangouda Patil Yatnal, asserting that his remarks are the “worst kind” of sacrilege and abuse in opposition to Gandhi on the “instance of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai”.googletag.cmd.push(carry out() googletag.present(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
“The modus operandi of BJP is clear. They target Sonia Gandhi every time. Their (BJP) national leaders have made baseless remarks against her (Sonia Gandhi) several times,” CM Baghel said.
The ‘vishkanya’ jibe in opposition to Gandhi by Yatnal, who’s the Bijapur MLA and former minister, at a poll rally acquired right here a day after Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge in distinction Prime Minister Narendra Modi with a ‘poisonous snake’.
Campaigning in Karnataka for the May 10 assembly polls is in full swing and the Congress seeks to wrest power from the BJP throughout the state.
Karnataka is the one southern state the place the BJP is in power.
“The country wants to know what PM Narendra Modi and (home minister) Amit Shah have to say now,” said Baghel, together with that Congress employees in Chhattisgarh had been considering submitting a police grievance.
Asked about Kharge’s snake remark in opposition to the PM, Baghel said the Congress president has “withdrawn” it.
