Rahul Gandhi's disqualification from the LS brings Opposition together
Deccan ChronicleNEW DELHI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s disqualification from the Lok Sabha on Friday has suddenly brought the entire Opposition under one umbrella. Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Friday claimed that Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s disqualification from the Lok Sabha was the BJP’s tactic to divert people’s attention from issues like inflation, unemployment and an “industrialist friend” sinking India’s money. Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Friday termed Rahul Gandhi’s disqualification from the Lok Sabha as a “violent attack on democracy” by the Sangh Parivar. Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren Friday attacked the BJP-led government at the Centre for the disqualification of Rahul Gandhi from the Lok Sabha and said that “political differences have become battles for vendetta and Opposition leaders have become targets of the saffron party”. Former Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray dubbed Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s disqualification as a “murder” of democracy and said this was the beginning of the end of “dictatorship”.