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Congress a restless soul: Uma Bharti

Pitched as the first speaker of the National Democratic Alliance in the debate on Gujarat in the Lok Sabha, Bharti sought to turn the tables on the Congress. She said Congress councillors were involved in the Godhra train carnage and were among those who had prevented the fire brigade from reaching the spot in time.

Amid vociferous protests and rebuttals from Congress members, the Bharatiya Janata Party leader said the Congress out of power was like a "restless soul" that would go to any extent in its "greed for office".

In their "lust" for power, the Congress had destabilised the Charan Singh and Chandrashekhar governments, she said amid loud protests from Congress benches.

She pooh-poohed Samajwadi Party leader Mulayam Singh Yadav's credentials, saying his party workers had manhandled Bahujan Samaj Party leader Mayawati in a rest-house in Uttar Pradesh. Yadav quickly denied the charge.

She said the government had condemned both the Godhra carnage and the subsequent violence and asserted that the removal of the Modi government was not a solution to the issue. "We have to go to root causes of such incidents."

PTI

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