Cong. is sinking ship being deserted by all: Rajnath

TIL Desk/National/Dehradun/ Hitting back at AICC vice president Rahul Gandhi for comparing rebel Congress leaders joining BJP with “garbage”, Union Minister Rajnath Singh today said Congress was a sinking ship which was being deserted by everyone.

“A Congress leader yesterday said BJP had picked up its garbage. Now that they (rebel leaders) are with us you are comparing them with garbage. You should realise that Congress is a sinking ship which is being deserted by everyone,” he said addressing an election meeting in Doiwala area here as the campaigning for the February 15 Uttarakhand Assembly polls came to an end.

On Congress’s charge that BJP had engineered defections in the party, Singh said his party was not responsible for the “sorry state” of Congress. “No one else is to be blamed for what has happened to you (Congress). Your boat had a hole through which water entered into it,” he said in reference to as many as 12 Congress MLAs deserting the party and joining BJP recently.

Exhorting people to give BJP a chance to serve them for five years, the Home Minister said the 2014 Lok Sabha polls were a turning point in the country’s electoral history as people for the first time gave absolute majority to a non-Congress government at the Centre.