TOPPLING GOVTS IS BJP’S NEW MODEL, SAYS RAHUL GANDHI

DEHRADUN/NEW DELHI: Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi and finance minister Arun Jaitley on Sunday sparred over the political crisis in Uttarakhand. Rahul Gandhi said the crisis has exposed the “true face of Modiji’s BJP” and that “toppling” governments by “blatant use of money” seems to be the ruling party’s new model, while Jaitley blamed the Congress for the crisis. The Congress vice-president took to Twitter to target the ruling party at the Centre over the political crisis in the hill state and declared that the Congress would fight this “demagoguery with democracy”.

Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi and finance minister Arun Jaitley on Sunday sparred over the political crisis in Uttarakhand. Rahul Gandhi said the crisis has exposed the “true face of Modiji’s BJP” and that “toppling” governments by “blatant use of money” seems to be the ruling party’s new model, while Jaitley blamed the Congress for the crisis.

The Congress vice-president took to Twitter to target the ruling party at the Centre over the political crisis in the hill state and declared that the Congress would fight this “demagoguery with democracy”.

“Toppling elected Govts by indulging in horse trading & blatant misuse of money & muscle, seems to be BJP’s new model, after failure in Bihar… Congress Party will fight demagoguery with democracy. This attack on our democracy & Constitution, first in Arunachal & now Uttarakhand, is the true face of Modiji’s BJP,” Gandhi said in a series of tweets.

Speaking to reporters in Delhi, senior BJP leader and finance minister Arun Jaitley said, “There is a deep division in the Congress in Uttarakhand... it cannot be attributable to the BJP.”

Jaitley said that a majority of MLAs voted against the controversial Finance Bill but the Speaker declared it passed. “In Uttarakhand, Speaker considered a failed bill as passed. This is happening for the first time in the country,” he said.