BJP’S foundation based on ‘lies’: Rahul Gandhi
NEW DELHI: Escalating his attack on the BJP, newly-elected Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Friday alleged that the entire architecture, structure and foundation of the ruling party was based on “lies” and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Gujarat model’ was “flawed and fake”.
He was speaking after chairing the first meeting of the Congress Working Committee (CWC), the highest decision-making body of the party, as the Congress chief, with his mother Sonia Gandhi seated next to him, alongwith former prime minister Manmohan Singh and other senior members.
Sources said the issue of indiscipline in the party, with leaders giving out-of-turn statements that hurt the party’s prospects in the recent assembly elections, were also raised at the meeting, besides the need to strengthen the organisational structure.
Rahul Gandhi, who had launched a relentless onslaught against Modi during the Gujarat polls, continued in the same vein as he termed the ‘Gujarat model’ a “lie”.
He alleged that people of the state say it is a “flawed and fake” model where there is “stealing” of resources which are handed over to a “few vested interests”.
“The whole architecture of the BJP is about lies, their whole structure is about lies... BJP’S entire foundation is based on lies.
“If you see the Modi model in Gujarat, it was a lie, clearly. When we went to Gujarat and we spoke to the people of Gujarat, they said there is no model. What is going on is the stealing of resources of the people of Gujarat and that’s their design,” he told reporters after the meeting.
Gandhi alleged that whether it was putting Rs 15 lakh in every bank accounts, the 2G spectrum allocation issue, or the Modi model, “one by one the lies are coming out”.
In his inaugural speech, he said he was surprised to see that it is universally understood by people of Gujarat that “this a flawed, fake model”.
“The main expression was that he (Modi) has handed over Gujarat to a few vested interests and he has taken tremendous benefits from Gujarat but Gujarat hasn t received anything in return,” he said.