BJP's 'feel-good' factor is like 'laughing gas'

JPCC secretary SAR Rizvi Chhabban said the NDA Govt had been using the 'feel-good factor as a 'laughing gas'.

Jharkhand Pradesh Congress Committee (JPCC) secretary S A R Rizvi Chhabban today said the BJP-led NDA government had been using the 'feel-good factor as a 'laughing gas' compelling people to laugh.

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The move of the NDA government was nothing but to conceal their failures and weaknesses during the five-year misrule, Chhabban said while reacting to NDA's move to rake up Sonia Gandhi's foreign origin issue repeatedly before the general election.

Criticising the BJP and its allies for misleading the country on various issues, he said the BJP had been feeling proud when Mother Teresa won the Nobel peace prize and honoured her as an Indian citizen. However, though the AICC president has been accorded Indian citizenship, the ruling party leaders continued to describe her as a foreigner.

About NDA's tall claim about increasing foreign reserve, Chhabban said a major portion of the reserve belonged to foreign companies and non-resident Indians, who can withdraw it whenever they feel it necessary.

Referring to BJP's claim about the muslim community inching towards BJP in this poll in large numbers, Chhabban, a former member of National Council of AICC (minority department), said the claim was 'bogus' as the majority of the community were still with the Congress.