Cong insulting Jat community with motion against VP: BJP

PTI New Delhi: The BJP on Wednesday alleged that the Congress was attempting to “defame” Jagdeep Dhankhar and “insulting” the Jat community by initiating a motion to remove him from the Vice President’s post only to deflect public attention from the Gandhi family’s “links” with George Soros. Keeping up its offensive against the Congress, the ruling party also alleged that the connection between US-based billionaire Soros and the Nehru-Gandhi family runs deep, extending beyond Sonia Gandhi’s ‘role’ as co-president of the Forum of Democratic Leaders - Asia Pacific (FDL-AP).

“Fori Nehru, a Hungarian like Soros, was married to BK Nehru, Jawaharlal Nehru’s cousin, making her the aunt of Rahul Gandhi, former Congress President and Leader of the Opposition,” the BJP said in a post on X. George Soros is documented to have visited Fori Nehru and maintained “extended correspondence” with her and their association traces back to the time when BK Nehru served as India’s ambassador to the United States, the party claimed. “This raises questions about the extent to which the Nehru-Gandhi family may have compromised India’s strategic interests, over the decades, to benefit their extended family’s financial and entrepreneurial pursuits, as well as the interests of the deep state, they have been aligned with,” it said.

The BJP also slammed the Congress over the decision of the opposition INDIA bloc in Maharashtra to move the Supreme Court over allegations of manipulation of electronic voting machines (EVMs) in the state assembly elections held recently, saying it shows they do not have any respect for the Constitution. Addressing a press conference at the BJP headquarters, BJP MP and national spokesperson Sambit Patra termed the opposition parties’ notice for a “no-confidence motion” against Dhankar and INDIA bloc’s decision to move Supreme Court on the EVM issueas “painful and disturbing”.

“The Congress takes the issue of EVM to the Supreme Court again and again and returns defeated. Every time it tried to curse and drag the Election Commission, it faced embarrassent …Yet the Congress is going to move the Supreme Court on the issue,” he said.