BJP Govt Staging Drama to Hide Its Failures: Kharge

The Bharatiya Janata Party is staging a drama of observing 'Samvidhan Hatya Diwas' to mark the Emergency to hide governance failures, Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge said on Wednesday, arguing that the Constitution faced a threat from Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

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Other Opposition parties such as the Trinamool Congress (TMC) and the Communist Party of India (Marxist) joined the attack against the BJP.

"Modi is raking up Emergency after 50 years to hide his failures. If there is any threat to the Constitution, it is from you," Kharge said in a special press conference. "You have brought in an undeclared emergency," he added.

The Congress deliberately held the press conference at Indira Bhavan—its new party headquarters—to put up a brave face against the BJP's campaign marking 50 years of the Emergency, which was clamped by then prime minister Indira Gandhi on June 25, 1975.

"Those (BJP-RSS) people who are talking of Samvidhan bachao are now raking up the Emergency after 50 years. It was something people had forgotten and they are now raking it up to hide their own failures," Kharge said.

"These people failed in governance and their failure is such that people are concerned over inflation, the government has no answer to unemployment, corruption and economic failure. To hide their lies and failure they have staged this drama," he added.