‘Rahul Gandhi bachao committee’: BJP takes dig at Congress' fact-finding committee over Haryana polls

As the results of the Haryana assembly election left Congress scratching its head, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday took a jibe at the party's decision to make a committee to probe the poor show by calling it 'Rahul Gandhi bachao committee'.
BJP national spokesperson Shahzad Poonawalla said that the aim of this committee was to not find facts but to ‘save’ Rahul Gandhi from the responsibility for the loss and blame someone else for the same.
"This is less of a fact-finding committee and more of Rahul Gandhi bachao committee. The committee only aims to blame someone else for the defeat. Since Rahul Gandhi began the Bharat Jodo Yatra, they have lost 11 elections and won only two to three, that too with the help of crutches," ANI quoted Poonawalla as saying.
Poonawalla further targeted the Congress leader by reminding his poor track record in fighting elections, which he said was 73 to 74 lost elections, also including the three Lok Sabha elections.
"The main fact is that Rahul Gandhi almost lost 73 to 74 elections including three Lok Sabha elections. Despite that, Rahul Gandhi is sitting in the fact-finding committee and KC Venugopal's ticket distribution is also being questioned. All of them are trying to blame Kumari Selja for the loss and she was not even called in the meeting that was held yesterday. We have also heard that the Congress has insulted the Dalits, and that is also a reason why they lost in Haryana," he said.
According to Poonawalla, Rahul’s adoption of the ‘divide and rule’ policy to break the nation has not gone well with the people. Instead, the use of this policy has angered the public.
"Rahul Gandhi adopted the divide and rule policy to break the country which has hurt and caused anger among the people. Can any committee take action on Rahul Gandhi now? Even the EVM has been balmed. In all states EVM is fine, but it only goes wrong in Haryana? The Congress party does not want to face the reality and have lost because of their arrogance and their disconnect with the people," Poonawalla added.
Expressing their surprise at the poll results, Congress has described it as "totally unexpected, completely surprising, counter-intuitive and against ground-reality and said "it is not possible" for the party "to accept the results".
A party delegation also met the Election Commission over the issue on Wednesday.
Congress won 37 seats, raising its tally from 31 in previous elections. Meanwhile, BJP bagged 48 seats and saw an increase of 8 seats from previous elections.