
Sonia Gandhi charges motivated: BJP
New Delhi, Aug 13 (IBNS) After Congress president Sonia Gandhi accused BJP of fomenting communal trouble since coming to power and said the ruling party has "nothing new to offer the country" and is stealing the ideas of Congress, BJP said the charges are motivated.
Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar said the charges of Sonia Gandhi are motivated.
"People have rejected them wholesomely [wholeheartedly]," he told reporters outside Parliament.
"The Congress is levelling completely baseless charges and we completely reject this. They are politically motivated and following their programmes since they have no policies of their own," said Javadekar.
Sonia Gandhi and Congress Vice-president Rahul Gandhi earlier had attacked the BJP on the issue of communal violence claiming that since the BJP came to power the communal clashes have risen many times in states like Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra.
"In fact, the Congress is the most communal party and has a communal agenda of vote-bank politics. It has allied with All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen in Hyderabad and Muslim League [in Kerela]," he said.
In her speech to party MPs Wednesday morning in Parliament, Sonia Gandhi said BJP is stealing Congress ideas.
"Well, they are welcome to steal our ideas. They are welcome to borrow our programmes, Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery," she said.
Congress has now only 44 seats in Parliament after a drubbing the last elections.
She said the BJP is now following the Congress on the issue of FDI in Insurance, fuel price hike, Aadhar scheme, goods and services tax sugar subsidies while they had opposed them on these when in the Opposition.
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