Mr.Modi is not our target:B.K.Hariprasad

He may be under attack from his own party. But the Congress says that Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi will not be an issue in the coming assembly elections in the state.

"Modi is no longer an election issue. He is not our target either. He has already been exposed very badly," asserts BK Hariprasad, the Congress general secretary in charge of Gujarat.

"What we are fighting in Gujarat is the terror Modi and his associates have unleashed. He has been terrorising people. We have to regain the people and the state," Hariprasad said.

Voters in Gujarat's 182 constituencies are to vote Dec 11 and 16. Hariprasad, a Rajya Sabha MP from Karnakata, was in the news this month for his unusually acerbic attack on Modi. On television, he was heard saying that Modi was "born in gutter".

Although the Election Commission promptly sent him a notice to explain the comments, Hariprasad - otherwise a soft-spoken man - did not show any remorse in the interview of what he had said.

"Einth ka javaab pathar se dena padega" (Our reactions should be harder)," he said. "The BJP should not underestimate us. We can do worse but our culture does not let us stoop to that level.
"Nevertheless we have to tell them what they have been up to," he said, referring to the unending vitriol heaped against Congress president Sonia Gandhi on account of her foreign origin as well as her family.

Hariprasad, who has been actively working in Gujarat for the last one year, says the political situation in the state was "good" for the Congress party.

Courtesy:timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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