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Jaitley's attack on Cong attempt to divert from NDA's colossal failures of past 5 years: Cong

Jaitley's attack on Cong attempt to divert from  NDA's colossal failures of past 5 years: Cong

New Delhi, Mar 24 (UNI) Hitting back at Finance Minister Arun Jaitley for blaming the party's current travails on its dynastic character, the Congress on Sunday said the latest attack by Mr Jaitley was a 'cheap Cover Up Exercise’ for the NDA's colossal failures of the past 5 years.
In a statement issued here, AICC spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said, 'Bogus Blogger’ Arun Jaitley and his incessant rants are being used by the Modi Government to hide their massive failures on Unemployment, Rural Distress, Mismanagement of Economy, and Persecution of the Weaker Sections. PM Modi and Mr Jaitley cannot hide behind daily blogs on ‘Non-Issues’ in order to hide the ‘Real-Issues.'
Terming the repeated taking up by the BJP of the issue of 'dynastic politics: in the Congress as a sign of its 'hypocrisy', Mr Surjewala cited examples of'dynastic politics 'in the BJP and it's allies.'
Since the BJP is so fond of talking about ‘Dynasty Politics’ – here is a small ‘Mirror of Truth’- Home Minister Rajnath Singh’s son Pankaj Singh now an MLA in Uttar Pradesh, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley’s father-in-law was the Finance Minister of J&K for 14 years, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj’s husband Swaraj Kaushal was Governor of Mizoram, Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s father in law was a Minister in Andhra Pradesh Govt in 1970’s, Railway Minister Piyush Goel’s father Ved Prakash Goyal was the Union Minister of Shipping in Vajpayee Government, Cabinet Minister Dharmendra Pradhan is a son of Former Minister in Vajpayee Government Debendra Pradhan, MoS Jayant Sinha is the son of Former Union Minister Yashwant Sinha, Rajasthan Ex CM Vasundhara Raje’s son is Dushyant Singh, who is a BJP MP, Chhattisgarh Ex CM Dr Raman Singh’s son Abhishek Singh is a BJP MP, Himachal Pradesh Ex CM Prem Kumar Dhumal’s son Anurag Thakur is a BJP MP, Ex Union Minister Pramod Mahajan’s daughter is Ms Poonam Mahajan, a BJP MP.
Ex Union Minister Gopinath Munde’s daughter is Ms Pankaja Munde is a BJP MP, BJP's National General Secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya's son is Akash Vijayvargiya, an MLA in Madhya Pradesh.
These are some prominent examples.
BJP’s hypocrisy on ‘dynasty politics’ also continues with its choice of allies:-
BJP’s oldest ally – Akali Dal is led by Former Punjab CM Prakash Singh Badal, whose son Sukhbir Badal was the deputy CM of Punjab and wife Harsimrat Badal, a Union Minister in Modi Government'. BJP’s Bihar ally- Lok Jan Shakti Party is led by Union Minister, Ram Vilas Paswan, his son Chirag Paswan is also an MP. 'BJP’s UP ally- Apna Dal was led by patriarch, Sone Lal Patel, his daughter, Anupriya Patel is an MoS in the Modi Government;'he said.

In thus contexts, Mr Surjewala said family background is not the guarantee for political success.
'It is the people who have the power to accept and reject in the political arena. It is the people of India who have elected the Congress party time and again and shall vote Congress party again to power in 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
State Elections which the BJP lost was just a trailer, people of India shall show them the film on May 23 ,' Mr Surjewala said.
Mr Surjewala said that the Congress did not require any certificates of approval from the PM Modi, Arun Jaitley on its contribution to Nation Building.
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In its 133 year old rich history, Congress party has had 87 Presidents till now and it does not require any
certificates of approval from the likes of PM Modi & Arun Jaitley on its contribution to Nation
Building. Infact those who destroyed 4.7 Crore Jobs.in last 5 years are preaching instead of introspecting.
India does not need any lecture from a party which carries an ideology engrained in a Sectarian Pamphlet
called ‘Bunch of Thoughts’ by a bigoted fundamentalist called M S Golwalkar.
India does not need any lecture from forces who sided with the British against the Indian people, in the
struggle for freedom during the National Movement. India also does not need any lecture from people
who pleaded clemency to the British throne as millions sacrificed their lives and spent lifetimes in British
jails during the Freedom Movement.
Congress party is proud to have been elected by people of India to reshape its destiny for over 5 decades
and celebrate the achievements of 130 Cr people of India,'he said..
Earlier in a fresh attack on the Congress, Mr Jaitley said that the party that been out of power for five years was now staring at another possible defeat.
Taking a fresh dig at the Congress party in a Facebook blog post, Mr Jaitley blamed the party's current travails on its dynastic character.
"If the current generation of the party is competent, charismatic and enjoys popular confidence, the dynast can pull-off major victories. There is an incentive in the party to rally behind him. However, if the current generation dynast is lacking in charisma, understanding and popular confidence, the crowd around the family gets increasingly frustrated."
Is the Congress party witnessing this, asked Jaitley in his blog.
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