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Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram has slammed four BJP MPs from Karnataka for their undermining of AICC chief Mallikarjun Kharge’s letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the Odisha railway tragedy, saying it was another example of the “absolute intolerance” of the saffron party to any criticism.
In a report by PTI, Chidambaram also said the BJP MPs’ letter in response to Kharge was “shallow on facts and hollow on arguments.” Four BJP MPs from Karnataka, including former chief minister Sadananda Gowda, had taken exception to Kharge’s writing to Modi, saying the letter was “high on rhetoric and low on facts.” “It does not suit a leader of your stature to write letters to the PM based on facts gotten from ‘WhatsApp University’. But perhaps as the vice chancellor of WhatsApp University, you are forced to regurgitate fake news as facts,” the letter written by Tejaswi Surya, PC Mohan, S Muniswamy, and Gowda said.
Reacting to the stance taken by the BJP MPs, Chidambaram said their response was another example of the “absolute intolerance of the BJP to any criticism.”
Congress spokesperson Supriya Shrinate when asked about the letter by BJP MPs said Kharge is not just an elected Congress president but also the leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha and “in an electoral parliamentary democracy like ours, when he writes to the Prime Minister on an issue as grave and serious as a rail accident which has resulted in the death of 288 Indians, the reply should come from the PM”.
