'Your family had done deal-fixing': BJP hits back at Rahul Gandhi
BJP on Sunday hit back at Rahul Gandhi over his «match-fixing» accusation against Prime Minister Narendra Modi, alleging that the Congress government in the past handed over Katchatheevu island to Sri Lanka clinching a «deal» with the neighbouring country to benefit the party's first family. The BJP's reaction came after Gandhi accused Prime Minister Modi of trying to do «match-fixing» in the Lok Sabha polls and asserted that if the BJP succeeds in its endeavours, the country's Constitution will be changed and people's rights taken away.
Addressing a press conference here, BJP national spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla also slammed the Congress over Gandhi's claim that the entire country will be on fire if the saffron party returns to power and the Constitution is changed, saying that divisive politics is in the «DNA» of the main opposition.
The Congress did not hesitate to even allow the country's partition on the lines of religion in 1947 leaving a portion of Jammu and Kashmir under Pakistan's occupation, he charged.
Addressing the INDIA bloc's 'Save Democracy' rally at the Ramlila Maidan here earlier in the day, the former Congress president claimed that if the BJP wins the election through match-fixing and changes the Constitution, the country would not be saved and «there will be fire everywhere».
This is not an ordinary election but one to save the country's democracy and the Constitution, Gandhi said.
Reacting sharply to Gandhi's remarks, Poonawalla said, «Some people are talking about match fixing. In
