Ashok Gehlot attacked his colleague Kapil Sibal for criticising the Gandhis.
New Delhi:
Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Tuesday joined the league of Congress leaders lashing out at their colleague Kapil Sibal for his remarks in opposition to the management, saying that the senior lawyer was not a person of “Congress tradition”.
“Kapil Sibal is not an individual from Congress tradition. He is a famend advocate who entered Congress. Sonia ji and Rahul ji has given him a variety of possibilities. It is anticipated from an individual who does not know ABC of Congress to provide such statements,” Mr Gehlot advised information company ANI.
Earlier, chatting with reporters in Jaipur, he termed Mr Sibal’s feedback “unlucky” and stated, “At a time when the celebration is shedding elections, leaders ought to stand united.”
He stated the Congress is the one celebration that may combat in opposition to the BJP and praised Rahul Gandhi for taking up Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
“Those that are speaking about ending the Congress celebration will themselves get completed. The Congress is years previous celebration and our leaders have made supreme sacrifices earlier than and after the Independence,” he stated.
Mr Sibal, one of many members of the group of 23 or “G-23” dissidents who had written a letter to celebration chief Sonia Gandhi two years in the past, voicing issues concerning the celebration’s dwindling fortunes in elections and calling for sweeping modifications, has stated the Gandhis ought to step apart and provides another chief an opportunity to guide the celebration following the drubbing in state elections final week.
“Management is in cuckoo land… I need a ‘Sab ki Congress’. Some need a ‘Ghar ki Congress’,” Mr Sibal advised The Indian Specific newspaper in an interview.
The remarks got here after the Congress Working Committee met on Sunday, and after virtually 5 hours of deliberations urged Sonia Gandhi to proceed to guide and provoke modifications required to strengthen the celebration.
The CWC additionally rejected Ms Gandhi’s provide to resign, alongside along with her kids Rahul and Priyanka, and reposed religion in her management.
For his critique of the Gandhi household, Mr Sibal has confronted acerbic assaults inside his celebration.
The celebration’s Lok Sabha whip Manickam Tagore, a staunch Rahul Gandhi loyalist, accused him of talking the language of the BJP and its ideological guardian Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) who need the Gandhis to be out of management place to kill the Congress celebration and destroy the concept of India.
Congress nationwide spokesperson Pawan Khera stated Mr Sibal ought to contest elections for the publish of Congress president as an alternative of constructing public feedback in opposition to the management.
“Why RSS and BJP desires Nehru-Gandhi’s out of the management? As a result of with out Gandhi’s management Congress can be change into Janata celebration. It is easy to kill Congress then it is easy to destroy the concept of India (sic),” Mr Tagore stated on Twitter.
“Kapil Sibal is aware of it however why he’s talking the language of RSS/BJP,” he stated.
Mr Khera additionally put out a Twitter publish hitting out at Mr Sibal.
“Dr Harshvardhan didn’t ask you to step other than Chandni Chowk. He fought an election and defeated you Kapil Sibal. Those that need to lead Congress are free to combat upcoming election for the place of celebration president as an alternative of chanting on a regular basis in opposition to present management,” Mr Khera tweeted.
