On Sonia Gandhi's book and imposition of Emergency, BJP national spokesperson and MP Sudhanshu Trivedi said the fact of the matter is Rajiv Gandhi in 1985 had defended and justified proclamation of draconian Emergency norms.
"Rajiv Gandhi had defended and supported it," Trivedi told a press conference.
"I am quoting, July 7, 1985 ... Someone asked Rajiv Gandhi about the imposition of Emergency 10 years ago, Rajiv Gandhi paused and then said -- It was a right step. There were various forces working and if those conditions were repeated than it would be necessary to have another Emergency...
Then on July 23, 1985, Lok Sabha .... he was asked about the same ... then on the floor of Parliament, Rajiv Gandhi said - "I was asked a very specific question; on whether I thought the Emergency was correct, I said yes".
Rajiv had said - "Yes, it is correct and I stand by that statement".
The BJP spokesman also mentions Dec 18, 1985 -- when Congress Working Committee (CWC) had passed a resolution and it said "to meet an unprecedented threat to the nation's stability, an emergency was proclaimed in 1975. The process of socio-economic change gathered momentum with promulgation of a bold and dynamic decision".
Sudhanshu Trivedi also said -- "...She (Sonia) gave up the post of Prime Minister and became a Super PM.
"You will not find such an example anywhere in the world, where someone gives up the post of Prime Minister but takes the rank of a Cabinet Minister. She became the Chairperson of the National Advisory Council (NAC), with the rank of a Cabinet Minister, and that too under the Office of Profit...I believe all these facts are before the people of the country, and everyone knows what the Super PM and Super Cabinet were during that period of governance."
BJP national spokesperson Pradeep Bhandari said: "... After the release of Sonia Gandhi’s book, questions have resurfaced about the Bofors scandal, which both the Congress party and Sonia Gandhi have remained silent about.
People want to know what the relationship was between Rajiv Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi and Ottavio Quattrocchi that led to the scandal... Sonia Gandhi is more concerned about Babri.
The book revolves around the Bofors scandal and Congress’s Babri vote-bank politics... Sonia Gandhi has neither apologised nor abandoned this politics of appeasement...".
On CPP chairperson Sonia Gandhi recounting Operation Blue Star; another BJP leader H S Phoolka said:
"I got several phone calls from media. They said Sonia Gandhi has written that during the 1984 Sikh massacre, the Army was called on 31st October itself. I have purchased the book to read whether this is indeed written in the book. If this is written in the book, it is against the records.
It is absolutely false. As per the official record by the Commission, by the Govt, Army was called in on the evening of 1st November and the Army arrived only on the evening of 2nd November.
In its report, Misra Commission stated that 5000 Army personnel were available within Delhi and they were not deployed. Misra Commission stated that had they been deployed, lives of 2000 Sikhs could have been saved. So, I will read the book and show that whatever falsehood has been written, it has been written to mislead people."
On former PM Indira Gandhi’s tearful reaction to Op Blue Star, as mentioned in the memoir, he says,
"...This doesn't seem to be true. In September, Justice Tarkunde's team wrote a fact-finding report on Operation Blue Star. Actual postmortem report was included in the report. The entire team was arrested and the report was banned...If you look at the actual facts, you won't find any regrets or tears.
It might be crocodile tears."
On Congress MP Imran Masood's 'Be it Diwali or pollution, a man-made disease' statement reported in the media, BJP spokesperson Pradeep Bhandari said:
"... Those driven by vote-bank politics repeatedly insult Sanatan Dharma.
They support offering namaz on roads while referring to Diwali as a disease. These remarks reflect the thinking of the Congress party and the Gandhi-Vadra family, as expressed by Imran Masood...
The same Imran Masood and the Gandhi-Vadra family have previously made controversial remarks about Hindus, compared them to terrorists, and cried over the Batla House encounter and called the 26/11 attacks an RSS conspiracy...
This communal, vote-bank politics poses a serious threat to the country's constitutional values. The people have rejected Congress in the 2014, 2019 and 2024 elections, and will continue to do so in future elections...".
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