"Rahul Gandhi unfit to continue as LoP, threat to national unity": BJP's CR Kesavan hits out at Congress over Prashant Bhushan's remarks

Accusing the Congress party of pursuing an "anarchic agenda" to derail Indian democracy, BJP National Spokesperson CR Kesavan on Thursday demanded that Rahul Gandhi step down as Leader of Opposition, calling him a "threat to national unity" whose politics of "mobocracy" has been exposed by Prashant Bhushan’s recent remarks on regime change.

Accusing the Congress party of pursuing an "anarchic agenda" to derail Indian democracy, BJP National Spokesperson CR Kesavan on Thursday demanded that Rahul Gandhi step down as Leader of Opposition, calling him a "threat to national unity" whose politics of "mobocracy" has been exposed by Prashant Bhushan’s recent remarks on regime change. Speaking on recent remarks made by activist-lawyer Prashant Bhushan regarding a "regime change," Kesavan accused Rahul Gandhi and his ecosystem of attempting to derail Indian democracy and grab power through undemocratic means.

"Prashant Bhushan’s venomous, toxic rant on regime change has now proved beyond doubt that the SIR process was just a smoke screen for Rahul Gandhi and his vile ecosystem. Their ulterior motive and anarchic agenda have always been to derail Indian democracy and seize power undemocratically," Kesavan said. Further referring to the disciplinary notice issued to the Congress leader regarding his recent conduct, the BJP spokesperson called it a direct reprimand of his political style.

"The notice being issued to Rahul Gandhi on his conduct is a rap on the knuckles of Rahul Gandhi’s politics of mobocracy," Kesavan remarked. Concluding his sharp critique, Kesavan asserted that Gandhi poses a risk to the nation's integrity and should step down from his parliamentary role.

"The reckless and unpatriotic Rahul Gandhi is a threat to national unity, and he is unfit to continue as LoP," the BJP spokesperson added. Earlier in the day, Senior Advocate Prashant Bhushan called for a regime change in the country, saying the Modi government is hell-bent on crushing the electoral democracy in the nation.

Addressing a press conference in the national capital, Bhushan said, "This government keeps on saying this is the opposition's operation of regime change. We are only appealing to save the electoral democracy in this country. If such barbarism continues, there will definitely be a regime change. We all want a regime change. Is there anything wrong with that? Regime change is a democratic right of every citizen, and creating disaffection against the government is not an offence." "Such a government cannot continue, which is hell-bent on crushing the electoral democracy in the country and continues to play with the fundamental rights of citizens," he said.

Bhushan was addressing the presser alongside AISA president Neha Bora and CJP activist Abhijit Dipke. Expressing solidarity with the media, Bora on Thursday slammed the authorities over the detention of journalists and alleged harassment.

Addressing a press conference, Bora said, "We saw how cameras were snatched from journalists, and they were told that they would not get the camera if they covered this. And yesterday, shockingly, we saw that a journalist who is covering news and is being sexually harassed by Vivek Bhagat, when she went to file an FIR, then yesterday it turned out that a counter FIR is registered against her. And what happened in this country is that when common people reach the police to appeal for justice, the police, instead of maintaining law and order and giving support to a particular political party, crack down on the public itself. This is a classic example of what we have been seeing in this country for so long," she added. The CJP and other organisations have given a call for people to wave the national flag at the Central Park in Delhi's Connaught Place on Saturday. With the AAP also supporting that call, this is the next step in their agitation against the CEC. (ANI)