In its elaborate rebuttal to the Congress over the opposition’s mock impeachment of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) injected a scalding dose of ridicule for Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi.
The Congress today put into motion what it called a “public impeachment” of the Chief Election Commissioner, Gyanesh Kumar.
The Congress deems Kumar a linchpin of alleged poll irregularities carried out to provide undue benefit to the party in power, the BJP. It has been demanding his removal, especially since a newspaper report claimed that many decisions linked to the Special Intensive Revision had been taken without the knowledge and express approval of the other two election commissioners in a panel of three. READ | ‘Mood Of The People’: INDIA Bloc ‘Impeaches’ Gyanesh Kumar At Mock Parliament, Demands Treason Case “And my humble request to you is, brother, please do not dismantle the Parliament. In the mock parliament that has been made, on the treasury side, seat Rahul Gandhi in a kurta-pyjama -leave the T-shirt – and do his bhajan-kirtan there every day, calling him ‘Prime Minister, Prime Minister’,” added the BJP leader. “Do you want a Pakistan in India? If you think that Indian police and the army will revolt against the government like in Pakistan, then you are living in La La land. We want to make it clear that India is not a banana republic.
“Make him a mock prime minister in the mock parliament”, averred BJP MP Sambit Patra at a press conference on Saturday evening, accusing the opposition party of attempting to dislodge the government by way of agitation because it had been unable to defeat the BJP in elections. The opposition party today organised a mock sitting of the Parliament and put into motion what it called a “public impeachment” of Kumar. The party repeated its allegation that the BJP-led NDA government was “illegitimate” as recent elections had been “stolen”. How dare you make such statements?” he said.
