New Delhi: Congress spokesperson Pawan Khera on Friday likened the BJP to an “Icchadhari Naag” — a mythical form-changing serpent — after Rouse Avenue Court here discharged former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and ex-Deputy CM Manish Sisodia in the excise policy case.
In a scathing X post, Khera charged that the BJP deploys central agencies as “campaign tools” with state elections nearing, terming it “vendetta as governance.” This obsession, he said, overrides the saffron party’s ideology in pursuit of a “Congress-Mukt Bharat.”
The post read, “The BJP is not a political party. It is a shape-shifter, a wishful serpent – Icchadhari Naag. It will stoop to any level for one obsessive goal: defeat Congress – Congress Mukt Bharat. For 12 years they spewed venom at the TMC. And now? Narendra Modi himself is showering it with praise – not out of respect, but to land a cheap blow at Congress.”
Khera forecasted a rise in number of cases against Congress as polls loom.
“Elections are coming. So the script is predictable. Cases against Congress leaders will suddenly accelerate – @PChidambaram_IN has already been dragged back into the spotlight because Tamil Nadu is going for polls,” he wrote in the post.
This follows the ED’s recent prosecution sanction against Chidambaram in the Aircel-Maxis and INX Media cases.
“Meanwhile, proceedings against their convenient ‘allies’ in the AAP and others will quietly vanish in light of the Gujarat and Punjab elections.”
Outlining the pattern, Khera said: “This is the BJP playbook: vendetta as governance and agencies as campaign tools.”
