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BJP condemns Cong for blaming it for the split in Arunachal
New Delhi, July 31: BJP today condemned the Congress for blaming it for the split in the Congress Party in Arunachal Pradesh and stalling proceedings in parliament on the issue saying it `exposed the double standards of Congress.`
New Delhi, July 31: BJP today condemned the Congress for blaming it for the split in the Congress Party in Arunachal Pradesh and stalling proceedings in parliament on the issue saying it "exposed the double standards of Congress."
"We strongly condemn such baseless and wrong accusations against the BJP since we do not have any representative in Arunachal Pradesh. These kind of charges by Congress only show to what a low level of politics they have sunk to," party president M Venkaiah Naidu told reporters here.
"When they engineer defection, it is affection for their party and if the party splits, they put the blame on the opposition. This has exposed the double standards of the Congress," he said.
He said Congress accusing BJP in this regard and blaming it for what was happening in the north eastern state and saying that it was "endangering national security and was engineered with the help of NSCN(I-M) was the most ridiculous charge."
BJP president said that it was the Congress which in 1999 had encouraged present chief minister Mukut Mithi to split the Arunachal Congress of the then chief minister Gegong Apang.
"We have nothing to do in Arunachal and in view of the developments with 41 of the MLAs being paraded before the Governor, the Congress should have asked its chief minister to step down instead of going to the Prime Minister," Naidu said adding, "What can the Prime Minister do in such a situation."
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"When they engineer defection, it is affection for their party and if the party splits, they put the blame on the opposition. This has exposed the double standards of the Congress," he said.
He said Congress accusing BJP in this regard and blaming it for what was happening in the north eastern state and saying that it was "endangering national security and was engineered with the help of NSCN(I-M) was the most ridiculous charge."
BJP president said that it was the Congress which in 1999 had encouraged present chief minister Mukut Mithi to split the Arunachal Congress of the then chief minister Gegong Apang.
"We have nothing to do in Arunachal and in view of the developments with 41 of the MLAs being paraded before the Governor, the Congress should have asked its chief minister to step down instead of going to the Prime Minister," Naidu said adding, "What can the Prime Minister do in such a situation."
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