BJP hits back at Congress over attack on VK Singh

With Congress trying to corner Union minister V.K. Singh in Parliament over his dog analogy, the BJP on Saturday accused it of practising Goebbels’ tactics by repeating lies against him to make it sound true and raked up atrocities against dalits under its rule to hit back.

The party pitted its dalit spokesperson Bizay Sonkar Shastri for the counter-attack in which he also took a dig at Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi for his comment that Mr Singh had violated the Constitution, seeking to know which article did he violate.

Another party spokesperson, G.V.L. Narsimha Rao, said people were wise and could catch a lie as he referred to Mr Gandhi’s interaction with students in Bengaluru where some of them did not agree with his criticism of certain policies of the Narendra Modi government.

“The Congress seems to believe Goebbels’ theory. So, it is lying frequently. People are wise and can catch a lie quickly and Rahul Gandhi had one such experience recently,” Mr Rao said. Goebbels was the propaganda minister in Nazi Germany.

The Congress and the BSP have been protesting against Mr Singh’s comments, resulting in work being paralysed in the Rajya Sabha, where the BJP-led NDA lacks numbers to push its legislative agenda.

The Union minister had made a controversial dog analogy while answering questions about the alleged incident in Haryana’s Faridabad in which two toddlers in a dalit family were burned alive on the intervening night of 19-20 October.

The BJP said the the minister had clarified time and again and had expressed regret over the matter.