AICC spokesperson Dinesh Gundu Rao told reporters that Shah's main agenda is polarisation of people on religious grounds by creating communal tension. File image.
The Congress on Sunday charged BJP president Amit Shah with trying to create communal tension and misusing I-T department to destabilise the state government.
AICC spokesperson Dinesh Gundu Rao told reporters that Shah’s main agenda is polarisation of people on religious grounds by creating communal tension. Hence, Shah has been confidently saying that he knows how to win the Assembly elections in the state. But, Shah will not succeed in his game plan. The Congress will come back to power, he added.
The BJP chief has termed the state government as corrupt. But, he does not have moral right to talk about corruption. Many of the state BJP leaders are corrupt. The BJP is trying to defame the Congress government by misusing the I-T department. Besides, the saffron party is carrying out a misinformation campaign against the government using social media, he charged.
Rao also accused the BJP’s Vistaaraks of misleading people on the achievements of Union government led by Narendra Modi.
Vistaarks are distributing pamphlets to people, making false claims. The Modi government has failed on all fronts, he charged.
BJP hits back
The BJP reacted immediately and termed Rao as frustrated. “In his address to the intellectuals, Shah has only highlighted the achievements of the BJP government headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. It was hard facts. To dub it as a lie is travesty of truth. Dinesh Gundu Rao’s rantings, however, will not alter or change the ground reality,” BJP spokesperson S Suresh Kumar said, adding that the Congress appears to have been rattled with Shah’s visit to Karnataka.