NEW DELHI: In a caustic retaliation to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s fresh allegations of “election chori”, the BJP said on Friday that the Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha was raising the issue for his own “political survival” and justifying the party’s repeated losses in polls.
Amit Malviya, in charge of the BJP’s National Information and Technology Department, said, “The first thing to understand is why Rahul Gandhi is suddenly talking about ‘vote chori’. This has nothing to do with the Election Commission — it’s about his political survival. Rahul Gandhi wants to convince his own party that he is not responsible for Congress’s repeated defeats.”
Malviya claimed that dissenting voices within the Congress over Rahul Gandhi’s poor record in leading the party to victory were getting louder.