Modi, Shah enacting an absurd drama: Congress

Randeep Singh Surjewala, in charge of communications, AICC, on Thursday alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP president Amit Shah were enacting an “absurd drama of photo-ops and headline management” fearing imminent defeat in the Karnataka Assembly elections and the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

At a press conference here, he said stark reality was that the Modi government has denigrated the highest temple of democracy — India’s Parliament — by obstructing its functioning. The BJP disrupted 66.88% of the total functioning time of the previous Lok Sabha (2009–14) and wasted 250 functioning hours of this budget session by engineering disruptions, he said.

Mr. Surjewala said the Modi government and the BJP should tender an unconditional apology for dishonouring democracy. “The BJP disrupted Parliament through proxy allies, engineered deafening din and noise, did not permit the ‘no-confidence’ motions to be deliberated or voted,” he alleged. The Modi government had no sense of “accountability”, he alleged.

Opposing the “divide and rule policy” of the BJP, he said, “The Prime Minister and the BJP must understand that time for upvas ka jumla is over. Time for sanyaas from the seat of power begins now and will culminate into vanvaas in 2019,” he said.