Dismissing calls for leadership change in the Congress in the wake of the results of the recently-held Assembly elections in five States, former Minister and Congress leader H.C. Mahadevappa has emphasised the need for the party to come up with strategies to counter the political game plan employed by the BJP to gain power.
In a statement, Mr Mahadevappa said the party leaders should introspect over the party’s functioning and devise a course of action to protect the people from “communal forces”.
He said the BJP, which is the ruling party at the Centre and in a few States, had become a “puppet in the hands of corporates, RSS and Sangh Parivar” instead of working for the betterment of the people. The party, which is focussed only on elections, “misuses” Income Tax Department, Enforcement Directorate, social media and news media for its benefit, he said while accusing the BJP of “dragging the students into their propaganda via WhatsApp University for creating communal hatred and religious division”.
