Benches empty, Congress fails to counter BJP

NEW DELHI: BJP severely criticised Congress and its leaders on several issues in Lok Sabha on Tuesday but the grand old party hardly had anyone in the House to lodge even a symbolic protest. It happened when the newly-elected MP from Bangalore South, Tejasvi Surya, took on the main opposition while delivering his maiden speech in the lower house.
Referring to some remarks made by leader of opposition in Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad on Monday, Surya said, “The president of the Congress party as well as his mother are out on bail and they give us lecture on propriety, on financial propriety.”
The 28-year-old went on to take the names of even India’s first PM Jawarharlal Nehru and his then cabinet colleague V K Menon. “Azadji quoted the example of Jawaharlal Nehru that he did not go to support campaigning of a particular Congress candidate because he had the perception of being corrupt. But I must remind him of history and historical lessons that the very same PM had V K Menon of the famed jeep scam sitting right beside him in his cabinet. This is history. This is the reality of Congress party,” he said.
No one from the thin Congress contingent protested as most of its senior leaders were not present in the House when Surya was delivering his fiery speech.
Azad on Monday said in the upper House that a party may win elections on divisive politics but the nation stood defeated. He said, “Keep your New India to yourself but return our old India where there was a culture of love and where there was no lynching and no hatred.”
Reacting to Azad’s remark, Surya said, “The reason why the Congress party does not want the rise of a New India is because in the New India, they cannot make their scams; in the New India, people respect you for your work, for your merit and your talent, not because you have a fancy surname that your great grandfather had given you. This is the rise of a New India which the Congress party cannot digest.”
He was speaking on the motion of thanks to the President’s address. Congress MP Kodikunnil Suresh was in the chair after his name was added to the panel of presiding officers (in the absence of Speaker) on Tuesday.
Surya also dubbed the Karnataka government “most corrupt”, but this remark too went uncontested.
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