Congress has inadequate leader, so creating fake issues: Arun Jaitley

Attacking Congress President Rahul Gandhi as a leader with inherent and inbuilt limitations Union Minister Arun Jaitley on Tuesday accused his party of manufacturing a controversy around Rafale deal by creating fake issuesHe also accused the Congress of engaging in an implied battle with the Federal Front in order to reclaim the minority vote by comparing Hindus with Taliban and using phrases such as Hindu PakistanMaking a sharp attack on Gandhi he said the opposition party was resorting to such strategies of creating fake issues because it had an inadequate leader and no real issueThe Congress realises that there is a danger of the next election becoming a referendum on Prime Minister Narendra Modis performance The popularity gap between the Prime Minister and his competitors is very wide he saidHe said the Congress with a leader who has inherent and inbuilt limitations was left with no choice and no issueIf you have no issue manufacture one Hence the Rafales fake controversy The Congresss strategy is therefore twofold It has manufactured the issue of the Rafale deal The issue is failing to cut much iceThe second strategy of the Congress is directed against the federal front By attacking the BJP on certain issues it is engaged in an implied battle with the federal front in order to reclaim the minority vote Comparison of Hindus with Taliban and phrases such as Hindu Pakistan are intended to help it against the federal front to reclaim the minority vote he wroteThe minister said that such a strategy to redefine secularism would backfire as in doing so the Congress was antagonising the majority against itselfAs equal participants in the Indian electoral process the minorities have a constitutional right of a vote But so does the majority By redefining secularism as a euphemism for majority bashing the Congress Party is antagonising the majority against itself Jaitley said in a Facebook postThe senior BJP leader said the Congress had a history of creating fake issues and was resorting to the same strategy of concocting controversies as it did in 1989 when there was an outrage in the whole country against the Congress party and its leadership on the Bofors issueThe Congress partys strategists invented a counter strategy of diversion by creating a fake issue A bank account in St Kitts was created in the name of VP Singhs son so that the Congress could now have a face saving argument if we are corrupt so are you Jaitley wroteHe added that the opposition party used the same strategy in 1999 when the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government in the backdrop of the Kargil conflict was likely to come back to powerThe Congress was faced with a massive defeat it manufactured an issue of sugar export to Pakistan Some two dozen press conferences on the issue were organised to question the governments commitment to nationalism The truth of the allegation was that a midlevel unknown Chandni Chowk trader had been exporting an OGL open general licence item sugar to Pakistan he saidJaitley said just like the strategy fell flat then so will it now as the Congress was either nonexistent or a poor third or fourth in larger states which account for 50 per cent of the Lok Sabha seatsOf the balance seats if it enters into some form of alliance it may have to concede seats in several states to its allies It is therefore faced with the prospect of effectively contesting only about 225 seats where it will face a direct clash with the BJP Jaitley saidIf the first part of the Congressmukt Bharat was scripted by the BJP the Federal Front is more than eager to script the part2 of the same Its message to the Congress is clear you will have to support us the other way is not possible he saidCatch up on all the latest Crime National International and Hatke news here Also download the new midday Android and iOS apps to get latest updatesThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Except for the change in headline the story has been provided ASIS AS AVAILABLE without any verification or editing from our side Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever