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BJP asks Rahul to own up family's 'failures'
By IANS,
Apr 16, 2007 - 8:02:52 PM
New Delhi, April 16 - Angered over Congress MP Rahul Gandhi crediting his Nehru-Gandhi family for the break-up of Pakistan, the main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party - Monday asked him to take the blame for the subcontinent's partition.
'If Rahul Gandhi wants to take credit for certain things by ignoring the contribution by others, then he has to take the blame for partition of India, creation of Pakistan, creation of PoK - and allowing Pakistan to hand over Aksai Chin to China,' BJP spokesman Prakash Javadekar said.
He also asked Congress president Sonia Gandhi's son to own up the emergency rule during 1975-77, terrorism in Punjab in the 1980s, the IPKF misadventure in Sri Lanka, the anti-Sikh violence in the capital in 1984 and promoting and protecting Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi who is an accused in the Bofors gun payoff deal.
Javadekar was reacting to Rahul Gandhi's comments during his election tour in Uttar Pradesh Saturday that 'when my family decides to do anything it does it. Be it the freedom struggle, the division of Pakistan or taking India to the 21st century.'
The BJP spokesman said: 'The remarks also expose his limited vision. His assertion that the division of Pakistan was his family's achievement is also absurd and has proved a diplomatic disaster. The Congress may defend him but let the Ministry of External Affairs validate his statement.'
He also attacked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for projecting Rahul Gandhi as the future leader. 'This is not only preposterous but is the worst kind of sycophancy stemming from the politics of dynasty.
'The eulogy of a man who does not see beyond his family and does not recognise their own - prime ministers Lal Bahadur Shastri and P.V. Narsimha Rao is undemocratic and condemnable,' said the BJP spokesman.
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