The Congress on Thursday accused the BJP of appeasing China as a counter to the ruling party’s perennial bid to paint the grand old party with the appeasement brush.
In a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge said: “The only appeasement policy that we have seen in the last 10 years is the appeasement of Chinese by you and your ministers.”
It was Kharge’s second letter to Modi since April 21 when the Prime Minister during a rally in Banaswara alleged that the Congress planned to take away people’s wealth.
Kharge’s letter on Thursday was in response to a personalised letter that Modi had sent to the BJP candidates urging them to spread the word against the Congress and the INDIA bloc regarding their alleged plans to take away quota benefits from Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes, and give it to Muslims. The Congress manifesto made no such promise.
“From the tone and content of the letter, it seems that there is a lot of desperation and worry in you which is leading you to use language that does not suit the office of the Prime Minister. The letter makes it look like the lies in your speeches are not having the effect you intended and now you want your candidates to amplify your lies,” Kharge pointed out.
On “appeasing” China, Kharge said: “Even today, you refuse to call China ‘Ghuspaithiye’, instead on June 19, 2020, you said ‘Na koi ghusa hai, na hi koi ghus aaya hai’, insulting the supreme sacrifice of 20 Indian soldiers in Galwan. Your public ‘clean chit’ to China has weakened India’s case and made it more belligerent.” He also flagged the 54.76 per cent increase in the import of Chinese goods over the past five years amid the tensions.
