By IANS,
Chandigarh: Chiding the Congress Party for promoting dynasty politics, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Nitin Gadkari Wednesday said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee cannot even think of ever becoming their party’s chief.
Referring his elevation from a poster-pasting ordinary worker to the BJP president, Gadkari said the Congress culture was only to depend on the Nehru-Gandhi clan for leadership.
“Can Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Pranab Mukherjee and other senior Congress leaders even ever think of becoming the Congress president?” Gadkari asked as he addressed his first public rally in Chandigarh here.
“From (Jawaharlal) Nehru to Indira Gandhi to Rajiv Gandhi to Sonia Gandhi now and in future Rahul Gandhi, the leadership issue is quite decided in the Congress,” Gadkari said.
He said as an ordinary party worker, he had pasted BJP posters and painted walls.
“I have been going around places with electricity linesmen to put up BJP posters. The BJP is a party of the workers. You can become an ex-MP from MP, ex-minister from minister and ex-MLA from MLA, but you can never be an ex-worker. The BJP knows the worth of its workers,” he said.
Condemning the policies of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government at the centre, Gadkari said the government has failed miserably to fulfil its promise of controlling prices within 100 days of coming to power June last year.
“Instead of the slogan ‘garibi hatao’ (eliminate poverty), the Congress government is out to eliminate the poor,” the BJP president said.