Rajnath wishes Cong 'get well soon'

BJP president Rajnath Singh on Tuesday turned Munnabhai and resorted to Gandhigiri to tell the "mentally ill" Congress to "get well soon". Rajnath who addressed party workers staging a dharna in the national capital on the Ram Setu issue said, "On this day, inspired by Munnabhai's Gandhigiri, I would like to say get well soon to Congress as they are suffering from mental illness."

On Tuesday, several BJP workers staged the dharna at district and State headquarters across the nation reciting Ramdhun, Raghupati Raghav Raja Ram, and the Sundarkand from Ramcharitmanas.

The nationwide protest was against the Centre's affidavit in the Supreme Court, which challenged the existence of Lord Ram, and to demand dismissal of DMK Government in Tamil Nadu for Chief Minister M Karunanidhi's alleged "blasphemous" remarks.

Earlier, Rajnath accused the Congress of trying to 'insult' Lord Ram due to its "mental illness" and pursuing a politics of "competitive vote-bank politics" to get the maximum electoral dividends.

He told party workers there was a need to launch another Satyagraha movement that should be bigger than that of Mahatma Gandhi's to protect the bridge. "There is no place for 'Rome' in the country of Ram," Rajnath told party workers as they shouted slogans of Jai Shri Ram.

The Congress-led UPA was also criticised for attacking the soul of Indian people, something that even the British rulers did not do. "The Britishers inflicted injuries on our body but the Congress is attacking our soul," Rajnath said.

The party reiterated its demand to sack Union Minister for Shipping and Transport TR Baalu who recently had asked, in the Supreme Court what was the hurry to conduct hearing on Sunday in the case related to the DMK-sponsored Tamil Nadhu bandh. If, Rajnath said, this is not done; the country would consider that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was behind the conspiracy.