{"id":1769,"date":"2021-10-19T05:25:37","date_gmt":"2021-10-19T05:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/?p=1769"},"modified":"2021-10-23T06:45:05","modified_gmt":"2021-10-23T06:45:05","slug":"bjp-slams-cong-for-vilification-of-patel-at-cwc-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2021\/10\/19\/bjp-slams-cong-for-vilification-of-patel-at-cwc-meet\/","title":{"rendered":"BJP slams Cong for \u2018vilification\u2019 of Patel at CWC meet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Oppn party dismisses claim as lies<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The BJP on Monday accused the Congress of committing a \u201csin\u201d over reports that a leader at the recent CWC meeting made critical remarks about Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel on the issue of Jammu and Kashmir and asked if the party leadership will take action against him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As BJP leaders attacked the Congress, the opposition party dismissed the reports with its chief spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala alleging that \u201cspreading lies and canards\u201d has become a norm for some.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra cited reports that Tariq Hameed Karra, a Kashmiri leader and a permanent invitee to the Congress Working Committee, had credited Jawaharlal Nehru for Jammu and Kashmir\u2019s integration with India and had alleged that Patel wanted to keep the Valley out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Karra also linked Patel with Pakistan\u2019s founder M A Jinnah, the BJP spokesperson said citing reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Patra asked whether Congress president Sonia Gandhi or Rahul Gandhi objected when Karra \u201cvilified\u201d Patel and presented India\u2019s first home minister as a \u201cvillain\u201d while praising Nehru.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Slamming the reports, Surjewala claimed that they are aimed at giving cover fire to the Modi government to \u201cjustify lies-driven press conferences\u201d while the BJP dispensation is \u201cnever\u201d questioned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Seizing on the issue, Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan took a swipe at the Congress, claiming that the Gandhi family cannot even unite the party, let alone uniting India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPity that CWC meetings are reduced to pleasing \u2018One Family\u2019 even if it is at the expense of insulting &amp; maligning the stalwarts of the country&#8230; The Congress, with a leadership crisis, will always find itself on the fringes,\u201d he tweeted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c\u2019The Family may enjoy these imaginary garlands of blandishment by Congress slaves, but India will not tolerate the insult of its greats, including the revered Sardar Patel,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Congress, Patra alleged, is reduced to being a party of a family and works to advance the family\u2019s rule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhat sort of mindset is this that one family has done everything and others have done nothing. What the CWC has done is a sin,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He noted that Karra also batted for Rahul Gandhi to take over as the Congress chief while lauding the contribution of the Nehru-Gandhi family and criticising Patel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is the height of sycophancy,\u201d he said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oppn party dismisses claim as lies The BJP on Monday accused the Congress of committing a \u201csin\u201d over reports that a leader at the recent CWC meeting made critical remarks about Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel on the issue of Jammu and Kashmir and asked if the party leadership will take action against him. As BJP leaders [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}