New Delhi: BJP taking a dig at Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi's "Ganga Yatra" on a boat in Uttar Pradesh on Monday said that she must get rid off the corruption within her party and home after campaigning on the river which is known for its purity and holiness.
Addressing a press conference, BJP national spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi said, "Priyanka is today able to enjoy the 'Ganga Yatra' only because the BJP has worked sincerely to purify the holy river from the lies and corruption that had polluted the river since long".
Terming the entry of the 47-year-old Priyanka Gandhi into politics as a failure of the party, Trivedi said the opposition party cannot look beyond family for its leadership. "The Congress has only brought Priyanka to the politics to save Rahul Gandhi and to save the 'sinking Congress'," he said.
On Priyanka's campaigning on a boat, he said Priyanka is sailing on a "directionless boat" which nobody knows how far will it go.
He said "..people are traveling on a boat... a directionless boat carrying a party without any support base led by unwise leadership and doing politics without values, one can easily imagine how far such a boat can go. Wherever this boat will find ashore it will be enough for it."
Attacking the Congress on the issue of corruption, he said that if the party is serious about curbing corruption then they should first look into their own.
He further added, "Those who cannot see "thieves in their own house are now beating drums about honesty."
The BJP leader without naming anyone said, "Charity begins at home and find out who is the epitome of corruption in their establishment and home".
The BJP was taking on Priyanka, who started her 'Ganga Yatra' on the boat in politically crucial state Uttar Pradesh to reach out voters for Lok Sabha elections.
She will cover 100 km by boat on the Ganga from Allahabad to Varanasi, the parliamentary constituency of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and she will also visit several temples while literally testing the political waters of UP where the Congress has been in the wilderness for nearly three decades.
