Patna, February 25 BJP president Nitin Nabin launched a scathing attack on Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday, accusing him of undertaking foreign trips without informing Indian security agencies, and having close ties with "anti-India and pro-Pakistan" elements.
Nabin accused Gandhi, the Leader of the Opposition, of being on a "compromised mission" that began with his great grandfather and first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and "continued through generations".
The BJP president's comments came amid a controversy over Indian Youth Congress activists staging a shirtless protest at the AI Summit in Delhi last week, with the slogan "PM is compromised", an allusion to the proposed trade deal with the US allegedly under pressure from the Donald Trump administration.
"Today, I want to expose the compromised mission of the Nehru-Gandhi family, which has traded national interests for personal gain. I want to expose Rahul Gandhi, who is misleading the public," said the 45-year-old Bihar MLA, who was made the BJP president a month ago, to reporters.
Nabin cited Nehru's alleged reference to the country's burgeoning population as a "liability" and the defeat in the 1962 war with China, as well as Indira Gandhi's alleged "giving up Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir, after defeating Pakistan in 1971" as examples of the "compromised mission".
He also alleged that Rajiv Gandhi, the father of Rahul and a former Prime Minister, had used the Bofors gun deal to "enrich his personal bank account".
"The compromised mission continued under Rahul's mother Sonia Gandhi, who functioned as a 'super prime minister' from 2004 to 2014, compromising the authority of the top constitutional post," the BJP president asserted.
Nabin slammed Rahul Gandhi for "undertaking 247 foreign trips, without informing security agencies back home".
"All this has been a part of Rahul Gandhi's compromised mission," said Nabin who also accused the Rae Bareli MP of having close ties with "anti-India, pro-Pakistan and China" elements abroad, including billionaire George Soros, US Congress member Ilhan Omar, and Kenyan financier Shakir Merali.
"Rahul Gandhi is a symbol of negative politics. But the people of the country, especially the youth, have seen through his game and they will not be misled by his rhetoric," Nabin added.