What’s so surprising about elevation: BJP

Vibha Sharma

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, November 20

Equating the Congress with a “private limited company”, the BJP today made light of the beginning of the process for selection of the next president of its main rival party.

“What is so surprising in this election (of new Congress president)? It was decided the day he (Rahul Gandhi) was born,” BJP leaders quipped while also wondering “whether the timing (of Rahul’s elevation) was aimed to reduce the burden blame of Gujarat and Himachal defeats on the current president (Sonia Gandhi)?”

Armed with past records and precedents of delayed Winter Sessions, the BJP also termed as “greatest hypocrisies of our times” the “barrage of accusations made by the Congress president against PM Modi.”

Parliament sessions were often rescheduled to ensure they did not overlap with elections, and that the Congress had itself done so several times, BJP leaders said.