Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Shatrughan Sinha today charged Congress president Rahul Gandhi with "keeping his eyes closed" to the alleged corruption of leaders like RJD chief Lalu Prasad and SP leader Mulayam Singh Yadav for the sake of vote banks.
In a couple of scathing tweets, Modi also blamed the Congress' sympathy for the Left parties for the rise of Maoist insurgency in a number of states across the country.
"Two days after the BJP registered spectacular victories in three north-eastern states, Rahul Gandhi finally accepted his defeat and declared his unconditional support to regional parties the SP and the BSP in Lok Sabha by-polls in Uttar Pradesh," Sushil, also a senior BJP leader, said.
"The problems before the Congress have increased with four of its MLCs quitting the party in Bihar. He was closing his eyes to the corruption of Lalu and Mulayam because their vote banks would cost Rahul Gandhi dearly," he added.
Sushil was referring to the developments in the Bihar Congress last week when former BPCC chief Ashok Choudhary, along with three other MLCs, quit the party and joined Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's JD(U).
Sushil also took potshots at senior Congress leader and former Union minister Jairam Ramesh for having said "demise of the Left will be a disaster for India".
"It is a sign of desperation in the Congress that Ramesh is lamenting the defeat in Tripura of the Leftists who had in 1962 chose to support the invasion by China instead of lending moral support to the then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru," the Bihar Deputy CM said.
"Leftists have promoted separatist forces in centres of higher learning like the JNU, thereby striking at the roots of nationalism. It is because of the Congress' sympathy towards the Left that six states, including Bihar, witnessed the naxal insurgency," he alleged.
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