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Congress members harming party prospects in
Gujarat: Shastri
Tuesday July 31, 2012 08:56:11 AM,
IANS
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New Delhi: Congress
leader Anil Shastri Monday said Congress leaders were making the
party's prospects in Gujarat weaker in an election year with their
controversial comments.
The veteran Congressman and working committee member, who is the
son of former prime minister Lal Bahadur Shastri, in his comments
on micro blogging site Twitter, slammed Congress leaders
Shankersinh Vaghela and Vijay Darda for making the situation bad
for the party in Gujarat.
"Gujarat is going to polls this year end & things are being made
difficult for Congress by its own leaders. First was Vaghela and
now is Darda," Shastri tweeted.
"How will Congress workers in Gujarat ask people not to vote for
Modi after he being hailed as 'Tiger of Gujarat' by a Congress
MP?" Shastri said.
Darda, a Congress MP from Maharashtra, praised Modi's style of
working and referred to him as a lion at an award ceremony in
Ahmedabad. He however retracted his statement, but the central
leadership of the party has been upset and asked Gujarat incharge
Mohan Prakash for a report.
Earlier, senior Congress leader and former Gujarat chief minister
Vaghela had raked a controversy after he reportedly told a
gathering that the Congress relied on Muslim votes to win.
Gujarat will go for assembly elections towards the end of this
year and Congress is making a deperate attempt to come back in the
state. Congress was last in power in the state in 1995.
The Bharatiya Janata Party formed a government in 1995-96,
followed by Vaghela-led Rashtriya Janata Party government from
October 1996 to March 1998.
The BJP is ruling Gujarat since March 1998.
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