Kolkata, Nov 2 (PTI) BJP president Nitin Nabin on Monday alleged that Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was leading those behind “anarchy” in the country, acting as a “toolkit” of foreign forces seeking to destabilise India.
Addressing a rally in Kolkata to counter the INDIA bloc’s campaign against “vote theft”, he called for making Delhi “Rahul-mukt (free of Rahul Gandhi)” and accused the leader of the opposition in the Lok Sabha of working at the behest of foreign powers that had “engineered” unrest in Nepal and other neighbouring countries.
The BJP has launched ‘Save Democracy, End Anarchy’ marches across the nation as a counter-offensive to the INDIA bloc’s campaign demanding Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar’s resignation over alleged irregularities in the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls and “vote theft”.
The INDIA bloc held a mammoth rally at the Ramlila Maidan in New Delhi on Sunday over the issues that were preceded by a symbolic “public impeachment” of CEC Kumar at the residence of Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge in the national capital.
In Kolkata, Nabin led a march from College Street to Dharmatala in the central parts of the city, which was joined by West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari and the party’s state unit president Samik Bhattacharya, among others.
“Rahul Gandhi is a toolkit of those forces which engineered the unrest in Nepal and other neighbouring countries. He is leading those forces who are behind the anarchy across the country,” the BJP chief alleged while addressing the rally in Dharamtala.
Sonia Gandhi has fulfilled her son Rahul Gandhi’s wish to become prime minister for a day by organising the “mock parliament”, the BJP chief said derisively. “Rahul Gandhi has no vision; he will be responsible for the Congress’ complete wipeout.”
Nabin also targeted West Bengal’s former chief minister Mamata Banerjee, saying she was “crying” in Delhi after losing the state. “Just as Bengal has become Mamata-mukt, we will make Delhi Rahul-mukt. We defeated Congress and Rahul Gandhi in 2014, 2019 and 2024. We will do so again in 2029,” he said, drawing cheers from the crowd.
The BJP chief also questioned the Congress leader’s political stance, pointing out that he had criticised the Trinamool Congress government in West Bengal during the Assembly elections but was now sharing a platform with its leaders.
“During the Assembly elections, Rahul Gandhi came here and spoke against corruption and misrule of the Mamata Banerjee regime. Now both are sharing the stage,” he said.
Nabin claimed that had the Congress and Gandhi learnt lessons from their electoral failures, they would not have raised “baseless allegations” against the Election Commission.
Only when they lose polls, the Congress and its INDIA bloc constituents question constitutional bodies, including the Election Commission, and the conduct of polls through EVMs, Nabin claimed.
“If you have a problem with the poll process, why are you not questioning the election process in Kerala and Tamil Nadu where the opposition forces have won,” Nabin asked and accused the opposition parties of disrespecting the people’s mandate.
Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari sought to turn the SIR controversy into an issue of illegal immigration, telling the rally that the exercise’s “real meaning” was to drive out infiltrators. “SIR means ‘infiltrators out’. We have to fight against the ‘Dimagi Naxals’, infiltrators, cockroaches and anti-national forces.”
He accused the opposition of joining hands to pursue appeasement politics and asserted that the BJP would ensure that only Indian citizens were allowed to vote. PTI PNT NSD
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