President’s address reflects government’s insecurity: Congress

NEW DELHI: Congress general secretary KC Venugopal today said that the President’s address to the parliament reflected the government’s insecurity.

Speaking during the discussion on the Motion of Thanks on the President’s address, Venugopal asked what was the need to emphasize the stability when the NDA was “technically” in power. He said it only betrayed the government's insecurity about its stability.

The Congress general secretary claimed that the BJP was stuck at 240 seats despite the support of the CBI, the ED, and the Income Tax, besides the corporate media that spread hate round the clock.

At the same time, he said, the INDIA bloc won 237 seats without any such support and that is why it was a moral victory for the INDIA bloc and a moral defeat for the BJP.

Accusing the Prime Minister of trying to polarize people in the name of religion, he claimed, his politics was rejected. He referred to the Prime Minister’s speech in Banswara in Rajasthan and said, the people of Banswara had rejected Modi’s ideology and elected an INDIA candidate.

Venugopal accused the BJP leaders of not being the real Hindus and alleged that they misused Hinduism to grab power. He said the BJP treated Modi as bigger than God, which was against the Hindu religion.

The Congress general secretary also referred to the electoral bond scam, alleging how the BJP misused the ED, CBI, and the Income Tax to force people to pay donations to them. He said that it should be investigated by a parliamentary committee.

On the Speaker’s decision to expunge certain remarks from Rahul Gandhi's yesterday's speech, he said, the “rulebook” must be uniformly applied to everyone, not just to the members of the opposition.

He referred to BJP MP Anurag Thakur’s speech, which, he said, carried certain remarks, which should have been expunged from the proceedings.