Cong offensive against BJP

Congress today went on the offensive against BJP over its frontal attack against Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, accusing the main opposition of personalising politics and degrading the quality of public life.
In a tough message to BJP, party general secretary Janardan Dwivedi said,"Does BJP want an investigation into allegations leveled against its leaders from time to time by the very persons who were at some point of time close to them....No body knows who will stand where if fingers are raised on the top leadership of any party by linking distant relations."He also advised the opposition party to "mend its language and the style of politics" saying this will do a great deal of good to the country as "larger parties also have larger responsibilities in a democracy".

BJP declared an all out war against Sonia Gandhi bringing the Congress first family in the line of fire on the Bofors kickbacks issue."The Congress, particularly its first family is faced with the power of truth. Truth has the habit of coming up at an inconvenient time. Misusing the CBI to undermine this case, each time and at every level, the party ensured that Ottavio Quattrocchi was enabled to flee the country," the party said in its political resolution.Contrary to earlier speculation, the party named the Congress first family in the resolution adopted at the two-day national executive meeting of the BJP.Targetting Sonia later at an NDA rally, veteran BJP leader L K Advani she had a close association with Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi, who was a "regular" at her house.