Patel's RS win has rejuvenated party: Goa Congress chief


Panaji, Aug 9 (IANS): The election of Congress President Sonia Gandhi's aide Ahmed Patel to the Rajya Sabha from Gujarat, amid late-night drama on Tuesday, has rejuvenated the party, state Congress President Shantaram Naik said on Wednesday.

"Victory of Ahmed Patel is historic," Naik told reporters at the Congress state headquarters in Panaji.

"They had to face atrocities and gimmicks of the BJP for last several days. Inspite of that, at midnight the results were declared and Patel got elected. We are very happy. He has rejuvenated the Congress party with his election victory."

Naik also said that the Bharatiya Janata Party has no right to stake claim to India's freedom movement as the party ideologues in the pre-Independence era colluded with the British.

"Predecessors of the BJP, which consists of RSS and other forces, wanted Britishers to stay. They colluded with Britishers to deny freedom of India and today they are boasting of freedom and other things. They have practically no right to speak of the freedom movement," he said.

Naik also accused the BJP-led coalition government at the Centre, as well as in states, of trying to erase top Congress leaders from history books.

"They want to remove names of Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and all other Congress leaders like Indira Gandhi etc. from history books... They want to rewrite history books," Naik said.

  

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  • Vincent Rodrigues, Bengaluru/Katapadi

    Thu, Aug 10 2017

    Patel winning with class planning of Shiv Kumar against BJP president has really yielded remarkable results which is a massive jerk in BJP's prospects

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  • anthony, Mangalore

    Thu, Aug 10 2017

    The congress must now go on the offensive collectively and reclaim lost ground. The nation is in need of a strong opposition party/parties to highlight the Govts failures as the press and TV channels have become the spokesmen of the BJP.

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