Sachin Pilot: Resentment among people due to the politics of BJP

Rajasthan, May 17 There is hatred among the people of the nation due to the politics of the ruling BJP government at the Center, Rajasthan deputy chief minister Sachin Pilot said on Friday.

Referring to the violence in West Bengal and BJP nominee Pragya Thakur's statement on Nathuram Godse, Pilot said it is out of the blue that an established foundation like the Election Commission of India needed to face several questions.

"The type of politics that BJP has done in recent days, it has created an environment of resentment in not only the Congress and other political parties but also in the entire country," Pilot said at a press conference.

"None of the senior BJP leader neither stopped nor objected Thakur's statement calling a person who killed Mahatma Gandhi as a patriot," he included.

"The party leadership has neither refuted the announcement nor ended her (Thakur) participation. The BJP's sidelining itself from the statement isn't sufficient," he said further.

Pilot, who is also the Rajasthan Congress chief, said that the criticism on six periods of Lok Sabha election shows that the BJP is trailing in all stages.

He said that the frustration of losing in elections can be measured from the announcements of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, party chief Amit Shah and other senior leaders.

Talking about recent violence reported in West Bengal during electioneering, Pilot said, "The facts that have come to the fore from the ground in Kolkata clearly indicate that the BJP brought people from outside Bengal for their roadshow. Whatever happened there is condemnable and indecent."

Pilot also criticised Modi for looking at West Bengal chief minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee, her party and its leaders with stone pelters of Jammu and Kashmir.

"You can evaluate that the prime minister of the nation is comparing an elected chief minister and the stone pelters who follow a separatist ideology," he said.

The Bharatiya Janata Party is censuring the violence in West Bengal however can't see the assault on a Congress official from Rae Bareli in Uttar Pradesh, Pilot said further.

Congress MLA Aditi Singh and members from the zila panchayat were on Tuesday injured in an attack while they were en route to cast a ballot on a no-certainty movement against zila panchayat head Avadesh Singh.

Avadesh Singh is the sibling of Dinesh Pratap Singh, the BJP applicant from Rae Bareli. The BJP and Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath have censured the episode.