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Prashant Kishor’s latest on NRC-CAA saga is a stinging rebuke of Congress
Kishor tagged a tweet of the Congress party on its president’s comments against the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government at the Centre as he put forward his criticism.
Prashant Kishor, the vice-president of the Janata Dal(United) who has criticised his own party over its support to the citizenship act, has now targeted the Congress.
As Prashant Kishor questioned the absence of Congress brass in the protests against CAA and the proposed National Register of Citizens (NRC) taking place across the country, he also appeared to point fingers at Sonia Gandhi.
Kishor tagged a tweet of the Congress party on its president’s comments against the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government at the Centre as he put forward his criticism.
“Congress is not on streets and its top leadership has been largely absent in the citizens’ fight against CAA-NRC. The least you could do it to make ALL Congress CMs join other CMs who have said that they will not allow NRC in their states. Or else these statements means nothing,” he said.
His tweets came a day after Sonia Gandhi in a televised address had slammed the BJP government for using brute force to suppress dissent in the country.
Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has been holding the fort in the absence of her brother and former party chief Rahul Gandhi amid the huge surge of a political stir all over the nation.
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra along with other leaders of her party had joined the protest at India Gate on Tuesday over the police brutality in Delhi’s Jamia Millia Islamia University. She even joined the protest over CAA at India Gate on Friday evening.
In one of his earlier tweets, Kishor had pinned hope on Congress chief ministers to lead the fight against the citizenship act.
“The majority prevailed in Parliament. Now beyond judiciary, the task of saving the soul of India is on 16 Non-BJP CMs as it is the states who have to operationalise these acts. 3 CMs (Punjab/Kerala/WB) have said NO to #CAB and #NRC. Time for others to make their stand clear,” he had tweeted.
The JD(U) leader had also urged his party’s boss and Bihar’s chief minister Nitish Kumar to reconsider his decision to support the CAB in the Rajya Sabha.
“It’s incongruous with the party’s constitution that carries the word secular thrice on the very first page and the leadership that is supposedly guided by Gandhian ideals,” he had said.
His constant opposition to CAA led Nitish Kumar to announce that NRC won’t be implemented in Bihar.
JD(U) demands all-party meet
A day after Nitish Kumar declared that Bihar will not support NRC, JD(U) principal general secretary KC Tyagi demanded an-all party meeting to resolve the ongoing crisis in the country.
“We believe that the BJP should take all party in confidence, hold talks as to how to resolve the crisis of violence that has engulfed the entire country,” said Tyagi.
On Friday, the Lok Janshakti Party’s (LJP’s) national president Chirag Paswan, too, had tweeted and said that the nationwide protests show that the Centre has “failed” to dispel confusion among a significant section of society.
“This has made it clear that the government has failed to dispel confusion in a significant section of people of the country,” he tweeted.
