UP polls have made BJP insecure of Cong: Joshi

The Congress on Thursday launched a scathing attack against the Narendra Modi-led government, which completed two years in office, asserting that it had failed on all fronts. Eyeing at the contentious UP Assembly elections, the grand-old party lashed out at Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief Amit Shah over his “Congress-mukt Bharat” remark.  

Stressing on “Congress-mukt Bharat”, the BJP chief had on Wednesday said: “It is an expression against the avyavastha (disorder) under the Congress rule for decades. To fulfill its own selfish interests, Congressmen ignored national interests. We want India to get rid of the system nurtured under Congress rule.”

Senior Congress leader and former UP Congress president Rita Bahuguna Joshi said, “The BJP and Amit Shahji want to keep Congress on the back-foot because they are insecure and unsure about the upcoming Assembly poll in Uttar Pradesh.”

She added, “In the last Assembly elections, the BJP had managed to win only 41 seats of 403. Their overall performance in the state has been poor.” Joshi also accused the saffron party of spreading communalism. “The BJP and its vanguards are trying to polarise votes by playing the communal card in UP. People understand and unmask their unholy interest in the upcoming polls,” she told Millennium Post.

She rubbished speculation rife over an alliance between the Congress and the Bahujan Samaj Party. “Though Mayawati ji supported us in the Rajya Sabha on the Uttarakhand crisis, it does not mean that there will form an alliance. Legislative support can be there. But we will fight one on one,” she said.