Rohtak, November 1, 2026 (Yes Punjab News)
BJP President Nitin Nabin on Sunday accused the Congress of seeking to run the country’s democracy according to the “law of the Gandhi family” and questioned why the party was holding protests instead of apologising to the Sikh community for the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.
Nabin was addressing the BJP’s ‘Loktantra Bachao, Arajakta Hatao’ rally in Haryana’s Rohtak. His remarks were directed at the INDIA bloc’s ‘Dilli Chalo’ rally being held at Ramlila Maidan in New Delhi.
The BJP chief alleged that an atmosphere of chaos and instability was being deliberately created across the country. He also accused Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi of acting at the behest of foreign powers and serving their agendas.
“He (Gandhi) seeks to challenge our nation’s democracy based on the directives of these foreign entities…Their associates, members of the Communist Party and certain Congress leaders, talk about ‘regime change’. But this government is formed by the mandate of the people; no one can even lay a finger on it,” Nabin said.
He argued that the Congress should have sought “atonement” for the killing of Sikhs in 1984 and apologised to the community instead of organising protests.
“Yet, today, they have taken to the streets to protest. I ask, on behalf of the people in this democracy, Rahul Gandhi, when our Sikh brothers were being slaughtered, when a full-scale massacre was unfolding, your father (Rajiv Gandhi) remarked that ‘when a big tree falls, the earth shakes.’ Because of that (statement), the lives of so many of our Sikh brothers were lost. You should have felt remorse for this; you should have apologised, but instead you are carrying out protests,” he remarked.
Nabin also accused the Congress of targeting constitutional institutions out of frustration over its failure to secure a public mandate to govern.
“If Congress leaders had the courage, they would first end Rahul Gandhi’s dynastic rule within the party and establish democracy in the Congress; instead the party leaders believe that even the country’s law should be made according to Rahul Gandhi and his family,” he alleged.
Referring to the Allahabad High Court’s 1975 decision setting aside then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s election over the misuse of government machinery and barring her from contesting elections for six years, Nabin described it as part of the Congress’s legacy of disrespecting the people’s mandate.
“This is the Congress’ legacy of stealing votes and disrespecting the people’s mandate,” he said.
Responding to Opposition claims that 13 crore votes had been deleted, the BJP president said party and NDA workers could provide details of every deleted vote.
“Any worker from our party, the NDA, or even one of our local unit Presidents can provide a detailed account for every single one of those 13 crore deleted votes,” he said.
Accusing the Opposition of trying to protect infiltrators, Nabin said BJP and NDA workers would ensure that they were driven out of the country.
“I declare that as long as the workers of the BJP and the NDA are here, they will ensure these infiltrators are driven out of the country. Under no circumstances will these infiltrators be granted any rights,” he said.
Concluding his remarks, Nabin accused the Congress of seeking to govern democracy according to the wishes of the Gandhi family rather than the Constitution.
“It has become clear that you wish to run the democracy according to the ‘law’ of the Gandhi family. But a democracy must be governed by the nation’s Constitution, which is worshipped by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. PM Modi has always upheld the democracy of this nation,” the BJP chief stated.
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