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Updated November 29th, 2018 at 21:32 IST

"The Congress is Nehru-Gandhi family's private limited company over which nobody outside the family has any right," said Amit Shah

Addressing in a poll-bound Rajasthan, BJP president Amit Shah called the Congress party a "private limited company" of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty.

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Addressing in a poll-bound Rajasthan, BJP president Amit Shah called the Congress party a "private limited company" of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty.

The remark came after Prime Minister Narendra Modi challenged the party to appoint a President from outside the family. 

In a statement, Shah said that the Congress has become a family enterprise aimed at dynastic service than a political party that is focused at public service. 

Along with the Gandhi-Nehru members, Shah took a jibe at former Union Minister P. Chidambaram who had named several party presidents of the Party who are outside the Gandhi Family. To which he said that PM Modi's dare had irked the Party with "many courtiers going out of the way to prove their loyalty."

At a public address in Chhattisgarh on Friday, PM Modi had said that if Congress appoints someone outside the Gandhi family as its president for at least five years, then he would accept that Jawaharlal Nehru had indeed put in a place a democratic system in the opposition party. 

"The Prime Minister is right. The Congress (Indira) since its inception in 1978 has been led by four members of one family for most of the years, thus making it more of a family enterprise aimed at dynastic service rather than a political party aimed at public service," Shah said agreeing to PM Modi.

"The Congress is Nehru-Gandhi family's private limited company over which nobody outside the family has any right," he added.

Shah alleged that two Congress chiefs who did not belong to the dynasty were treated in the "most shabby" manner in the recent past.

While P V Narasimha Rao's body, after his demise, was never allowed inside the Congress office, Sitaram Kesri, a towering leader, was "roughed up by goons loyal to we know who", he added.

BJP president cited the examples of several "non-family" Congress presidents to back his claim.

"Going further back in time, the likes of Babu Jagjivan Ram, S Nijalingappa, K Kamaraj were humiliated by one family. Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy, though senior, was not allowed to be president by one family. U N Dhebar was asked to step aside as Congress president for Mrs. Indira Gandhi," he said.

Shah asserted that Acharya Kripalani, a stalwart who worked closely with Mahatma Gandhi and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, was "humiliated" through the 1950s and 1960s.

"His crime- he moved the first motion of no-confidence against the Nehru Government," he said.

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Published November 29th, 2018 at 21:28 IST

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