Amit Shah slams Rahul Gandhi for backing anti-India protests in JNU

Referring falling price of crude in the global market, the Congress leader said, “Its benefits has not been passed to the consumers, instead the government made money out of it. All the money has been gifted to industrialists of their choice”.

In a blogpost, Shah criticised Gandhi for lending support to a “handful of JNU students” who had resorted to anti-India sloganeering.

Our Biswanath Chariali Correspondent adds: Ahead of the ensuing Assembly election in the State, Rahul Gandhi today took part in an interactive programme with micro booth-level party workers under Gohpur, Biswanath and Behali LACs at Gohpur in Sonitpur district.

Shah’s attack on Gandhi came after he had visited JNU on February 13 and questioned the arrest of JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar on sedition charges.

“When the whole country is outraged at the protesters who publicly gave anti-India slogans and supported a terrorist like Afzal Guru, the Communist Party of India-Marxist and the Indian National Congress, instead of condemning, have been rallying in their support”, he said.

“I want to ask Rahul that has he lent his voice to separatists in the country and is rooting for another partition of the country?”

Gandhi, Shah said, must apologize for igniting “anti-national activities” at the Jawaharlal Nehru University.

“Are you not encouraging traitors by protesting in support of these anti-nationals?”, Shah wrote in a blog.

Shah said that the Congress vice-president has in his blind attempts to battle the Centre lost his ability to differentiate between “anti-state and nationalism”. “We simply need to inform them if they’ll take heed to us, they are going to be satisfied by us… they’re merely crushing voices”, he stated. “The BJP-led NDA government is unnecessarily trying to change the identity of JNU by imposing its own brand of thinking”, he said.

Shah alleged that Rahul Gandhi “in his despair” was unable to distinguish between what is against national interest and what is in its favour and asserted that what happened in JNU could never be said to be in the interest of country. Our political conduct and morals are inspired by India’s rich culture, heritage and centuries of values & ethos while India’s constitution is our guide for governance.

“I ask Rahul Gandhi, was 1975 (Emergency) a demonstration of Congress commitment to democracy?”

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar urged Rajnath Singh to show evidence to back up his claim even as Delhi Police Commissioner BS Bassi told reporters in Delhi that they have found “no evidence linking” the LeT to the incident at the JNU so far.