The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday launched a fierce opposition to the spate of allegations against Leader of the Opposition (LoP) Rahul Gandhi, hours after he addressed a press conference in poll-bound Maharashtra and attacked the MahaYuti government , as well as the BJP-led Centre. .

BJP national spokesperson Sambit Patra slammed the Congress MP for holding a “low-level” press conference and said such “drama-laden” tactics and outpourings were unbecoming of a leader who holds a constitutional position of peak.

“Rahul Gandhi gets countless opportunities to hold a press conference, but he always fails to deliver anything substantial, rather people get a chance to laugh and giggle at his mistakes,” Patra told writers.

He also countered Cong’s “safe” attack and said the character and bent of the party had led to the slogan “ek hai toh safe hain” being misunderstood. Taking a satirical quip, he also referred to late Shiv Sena founder Balasaheb Thackeray’s assessment of Congress leader and nicknamed him “Chota Popat”.

“Balasaheb Thackeray in one of his interviews described him as Chota Popat. Ab yeh har kisi ki jubaan par yahi hoga – Chota Popat karey party chaupat,” he said mockingly.

The BJP spokesperson criticized the Congress MP for creating “drama” by showing a sample of the trunk (safe/tiger) to the press and said the party which has been caught “red-handed” in many corruption scams during during his tenure, he resorted to such tactics to mislead his compatriots.

Enumerating our series of scams, he claimed that the Gandhi family led from the front in looting the nation for many decades.

“Both Sonia and Rahul are accused no. 1 and accused 2 in the National Herald case and are currently on bail. “, emphasized Patra.

Sambit Patra also beat him Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge for equating BJP with poison in one of his recent public meetings and said, “this shows their emergency style mentality”.

“Because of their emergency mentality, they consider the opposition parties as snakes. We strongly condemn such rhetoric,” said Patra, responding to Kharge’s “poisonous” remarks.

Kharge, in his public rally on Sunday, called BJP and RSS “poison” and said poisonous snakes must be removed.

Responding to Kharge’s abominable remarks, he widened his criticism and said, “Priyanka Gandhi is seeking support from banned organizations in the elections, but the party’s central leadership is spewing venom against nationalist outfits.”

Patra also predicted a wave of memes on November 23, the day the Assembly election results for Jharkhand and Maharashtra will be announced.

“Like the way chickens lay eggs, Rahul’s blunders will generate memes on November 23,” he said referring to the party’s failed jalebi pitch in Haryana and the samosa factor in Himachal.

(With inputs from IANS)