Former union minister and Congress leader Salman Khurshid on Monday said that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) should stop saying things which have no basis, adding that the saffron party should not look for excuses by pointing fingers at the UPA’s rule.
“Growth took place during the 10 years we were in power. It’s time that the BJP stopped saying things which have no basis at all…There is already enough that is being put as a question to the BJP. They can’t find excuses and say that ‘you didn’t do this and you didn’t do that’. They were also in power in between, they can’t look behind to something of the past, they must look at what is today,” Khurshid told ANI.
“Who says that youth didn’t get jobs? Who brought the IT revolution in this country? Who brought in reforms resulting in massive growth? Has anyone in this country ever thought about farmers in the manner in which Sonia Gandhi and the UPA did?” he added.
Khurshid was reacting to Union Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari’s letter to Congress president Sonia Gandhi in which he had stated that the youth remained unemployed and development came to a halt during UPA’s 10 year rule.
The Congress president had earlier last week written a letter to Gadkari on the Land Acquisition Bill, urging the BJP to bring back the 2013 law in totality.
“I urge you to rise above the realm of narrow partisan politics and bring back the 2013 law in totality,” she wrote in her letter. (ANI)