Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday raised the issue of Congress’s promise of strict action against Bajrang Dal and its leader Priyank Kharge calling the PM ‘inept’ before the Election Commission. Describing the Bajrang Dal, the youth wing of the RSS-affiliated Vishwa Hindu Parishad as an organization devoted to Lord Hanuman and serving the people, Union Minister Piyush Goyal, who led the BJP delegation to the Election Commission, said the Congress’s attack on it was “shameful”. Is.

He told reporters that this shows that the Congress believes only in appeasement. Asked whether the party has taken up the issue with the Election Commission, he said every “objectionable” comment and action of the Congress was taken up with the aim of dividing the society. Party sources said that the issue of Bajrang Dal was raised orally before the Election Commission. The delegation included BJP MP Anil Baluni and party functionary Om Pathak.

Goyal claimed that the Congress is panicking because the BJP going to win the elections to be held in May and therefore the opposition party is now resorting to disturbing the law and order situation and as a last resort I am trying to divide the society. Hitting out at the Congress, he said that its President Mallikarjun Kharge had earlier called Modi a ‘poisonous snake’ and his MLA-son has now made another objectionable remark calling him ‘worthless’.

He said, “We have demanded that the Election Commission should take strict action in all these cases. The senior BJP leader also dismissed Congress’s complaint of “hate speech” against ruling party leaders like Home Minister Amit Shah and party president J P Nadda, saying they raised issues of national security and integrity. . He said that the Congress is trying to malign the image of Modi and India as the prestige of the country has increased under his leadership.

It is said in the manifesto of the Congress, we believe that the law and the constitution are sacred. No person or Bajrang Dal, PFI and other organizations that spread hatred and enmity, whether it is between the majority or the minority, they cannot violate the law and the Constitution. We will take decisive action against such organizations including banning them under law.

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Tue, May 2, 2023, 8: 40 PM IST