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BJP national president Amit Shah has demanded to know why Congress president Sonia Gandhi should turn emotional when those involved in various corruption deals are being chased.
Shah made this comment while being on an election campaign tour in Thrissur district on a day when the Congress and the BJP took on each other over allegations in the AugustaWestland helicopter deal.
Modi speech
It was Prime Minister Narendra Modi who lit fire to the controversy during his speech here on Sunday when he said people in the country knew "who had connections in Italy'' where a court was about to name those involved in the deal.
Speaking at the venue only a day after, the Congress president had made an emotional outburst in which she said that she had lived in the country for 48 years and would breathe her last here.
But the BJP national president said in Thrissur on Tuesday that everybody in the country was aware about the Congress's affinity to scams of all types.
'Remote control'
Responding to the Congress president's emotional outburst, he said what she had in mind was the love for and welfare of her own son or the National Herald, but not the country.
The Congress president, he said, had led prime minister Manmohan Singh with a remote control during the 10 years of UPA rule when it was marred by corruption running into thousands of crores.
These included 2G, Commonwealth, coal and AugustaWestland. The land, sky and even underground were not spared from corruption, Shah ridiculed.
Speaking in Malappuram, BJP national spokesperson Shanavas Hussain also took potshots at Sonia Gandhi's response to the Prime Minister which was aimed to deflect attention from the chopper case.
Apology sought
Meanwhile, former defence minister and senior Congress leader AK Antony has sought a public apology from Prime Minister Modi for his remarks targeted at his party president Sonia Gandhi.
Speaking at Kottayam, he said that the Prime Minister had compromised his august position through use of pedestrian language.
"It is not the country's Prime Minister but the RSS pracharak in him who spoke," Antony said. Modi had run away from Parliament where he would have been made to answer for his baseless allegations.
The Prime Minister is playing a politics of revenge. It is part of a larger game plan to tarnish the image of the Nehru-Gandhi family, Antony said.
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