New Delhi: Lashing out at Union Home Minister Amit Shah for targeting the Congress, Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot asked why there is no one beyond Prime Minister Narendra Modi and him in the BJP?
Earlier in the day, attacking the Congress on the 45th anniversary of the imposition of the Emergency in the country, Home Minister Amit Shah, in a series of tweets, had said that its party leaders are feeling 'suffocated' and the party's disconnect with people keeps widening.
In an apparent reference to the Gandhi family, Shah had alleged that "interests of one family" took precedence over the party and nation and questioned why the 'Emergency mindset' still exists in it.
Responding to the criticism, Gehlot said Amit Shah along with PM Modi has high-jacked the BJP and NDA government with no breather for other leaders.
He said apart from three to four ministers, the public does not even know who all are there in the Modi's cabinet.
It has merely been six years of the BJP and we can see how they have dismantled the democratic, ethnic and social fabric of this nation. May we know why there is no one beyond Modi-Shah in the BJP? he questioned.
Gehlot also claimed that only Congress had the courage and strength to take on the tyranny of the current regime.
Gehlot said he is not surprised to see that out of all opposition parties, Prime Minister Modi and Home Minister Shah are worried only about the Congress.