New Delhi, Jan 16: BJP leader Maneka Gandhi Thursday launched an attack on the Congress party, saying it was a “sinking ship” that nobody might save.
She conjointly said party vice president Rahul Gandhi, conjointly her nephew, was “no match” for Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) prime minister candidate Narendra Modi.
“The Congress is a sinking ship,” Maneka Gandhi said.
“Nobody will currently save the Congress. Corruption and scams have badly tainted the party’s image, and its leaders have constantly ransacked and cheated the state of these years.”
“Congress is in such a scenario that nobody, not even Rahul Gandhi, or his sister Priyanka, will save the party,” said the BJP leader, widow of Indira Gandhi’s younger son Sanjay, who was killed in a plane crash in New Delhi in June 1980.
“Rahul is not any match for Modiji. it’s sort of a battle between a lion and a bird. Modiji is an elected leader with huge expertise, whereas Rahul has failed on all fronts. Obviously, he’s no match for Modiji,” Maneka Gandhi told TV news channel Headlines today.
Maneka fell out with her mother-in-law indira gandhi in 1983, and shaped the Rashtriya Sanjay Manch, that later merged with the most opposition party, the Janata dal, in 1988.
She, beside her son Varun Gandhi, joined the BJP in 2004.
“The Congress party has ransacked the country in the past 10 years. people are so fed up with Congress rule that they’re not about to vote for it within the next elections,” Maneka Gandhi said.
Asked about the probably announcement of Rahul Gandhi as leader of the Congress in the Lok Sabha polls, she said: “It can create no distinction who leads the pack of forty thieves.”
Asked about Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s praise for Rahul’s “outstanding potential”, the BJP leader said: “I need to raise if the person who said all this has extremely served because the prime minister of the country. the total country knows that each (Congress president) Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul have kept the reins of power in their own hands. therefore what distinction can it create, who gets what responsibility.”
Calling the Congress a party of bad people, Maneka said, “The party urgently must change its image and people’s perception concerning it.”
Commenting on reports that Rahul Gandhi’s sister Priyanka would get a major role in the run-up to general elections this year, Maneka said: “I don’t need to treat her role.”
She added: “Congress has been projecting Rahul Gandhi for the past 10 years, but what happened? things is most worse for the party that even Priyanka Gandhi’s glamour cannot save the Congress now.”