"The Congress leaders are trying to divert attention of the people from their failures. They are engaged in a politics of preaching others and concerned only with pointing fingers. In Uttarakhand, the biggest tragedy took place and we saw the biggest failure in dealing with it," BJP spokesperson Shahnawaz Hussain told reporters.
At the same time, BJP underlined that it does not believe in playing politics over a tragedy.
Rescue efforts have also been a matter of contention with BJP charging that the Centre and the Vijay Bahuguna government in Uttarakhand had not taken requisite efforts. Congress has struck back mainly citing the exaggerated claims made by BJP on the people rescued by Modi's team.
"We are concerned only about the tragedy and on how to alleviate the sufferings of the victims which is a duty for us. We wish to show the mirror to the Congress on its failures," Hussain said.
"She had talked to Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde about the floods and asked him to wake up to the tragedy," Hussain said.
BJP President Rajnath Singh had done an aerial survey of the flood and landslide affected regions, he added.