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‘Sucks their vote bank’: BJP’s ‘Vikram-Betal’ swipe at Congress after Haryana debacle | India News – Times of India
National spokesperson of the BJP Shehzad Poonawala On Saturday, the Congress party was named ‘Batal’ – a ghost from the popular story collection ‘Vikram and Betal’. In the stories, the character Betal always climbed on the back of the king named Vikram.
“Be it TMC, SP, Uddhav Sena or Owaisi, since the results of Haryana elections came, they all say to Congress, ‘Rahul, tumse naa ho paayega.’ I think the Congress Party has become a parasite party. When the Congress faces the BJP without any support, we have seen its plight in Jammu, Haryana, Gujarat, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh. Congress is nowhere. Congress becomes ‘Betal’ and makes its allies ‘Vikram’ and then drains their vote bank. So everyone is saying that they should not destroy their vote bank and fight together,” Poonawala said.
Poonawalla further criticized the Congress and said, “Even Uddhav Sena mentioned in ‘Saamana’ why Congress lost the Haryana elections but Congress does not want to face the truth. The Congress Party wants to be like an ostrich in denial. That is why EVM and Election Commission are just an excuse; they want to protect Rahul Gandhi from the guilt of losing. So they did the Inquiry Commission drama yesterday and put the entire blame on a Dalit leader, Kumari Selja.”
He added, “Since his Bharat Jodo Yatra, Rahul Gandhi lost 11 elections and lost the Lok Sabha elections. If you look at his career, he has lost more than almost seventy elections. Yet they want to protect him and not interrogate him… I think it is the tendency of Congress to blame someone else for their defeat and not face the truth. Now even their allies – AAP and TMC are saying that they (Congress) are arrogant and incapable of fighting alone. They want to say that they (Congress) are like a parasite… Kumari Selja and BS Hooda have accepted defeat and the EC has nothing to do with it. Yet Congress is doing all this drama to protect 2-3 people like Rahul Gandhi and KC Venugopal…”
Reacting to AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi’s statement on Haryana’s election results, Poonawalla said even Owaisi points out the failure of Congress as he said, “…The Congress party should have taken advantage of the decade of anti-incumbency, but it seems that because of their internal differences, the BJP got the advantage. If you give the BJP even a small chance in the election battle, then the BJP will benefit from it. After the 2024 elections in Parliament, I had said that those who that saying this is a big success in the field of hate, I had also said at the time that this is not the case, so who is responsible for the success of the BJP? You (Congress) are the main opposition there and they had the golden opportunity to defeat BJP, but they couldn’t do it…”
Union Minister Giriraj Singh also lashed out at Rahul Gandhi and Congress, saying, “Time and again, Congress takes its ‘Yuvraj’ to the launch pad, but it cannot launch it. Firstly, they tried to blame Hooda for Haryana’s loss to protect their country. ‘Yuvraaj’, but the fact is that the people of Haryana have rejected them. He (Rahul Gandhi) keeps the folder containing the Constitution with him, he certainly has the folder, but nothing in him creates confusion by just showing that folder to the people… They (Congress) say they have J&K won, but the truth is that BJP defeated them so badly there that the caricature he did as a joker has ended.
