"Congress mindset has not changed even after 50 years of Emergency" Sudhanshu Trivedi on Opposition's allegations on ECI

New Delhi [India], July 25 : Bharatiya Janata Party National Spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi hit out at Congress and Rahul Gandhi for "levelling absurd allegations" on Election Commission for conducting Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar, suggesting that it reflect their "mindset" of recognising constitutional bodied on the basis "of whether they won the elections or not."
Referring to former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's decision to impose emergency, which significantly limited freedom of constitutional bodies, Sudhanshu Trivedi accused that the Congress mindset has not changed.
"On the matter of elections, Congress, INDI Alliance and especially Rahul Gandhi are levelling absurd allegations. This reflects the mindset that even after 50 years of Emergency, the mindset has not changed. If Indira ji said that the recognition of Constitutional bodies would be decided on the basis of whether she won the elections or not, today Rahul Gandhi says that Election Commission's credibility would be decided on the basis of whether they won the elections or not," Trivedi said.
Trivedi further called out Congress over its allegations on ECI during the Maharashtra Assembly election, stating that its own former AICC Secretary in charge of Maharashtra (2018-2024), Ashish Dua, writes otherwise.
"How they had spoken over the Maharashtra elections. A former secretary of AICC, who has Maharashtra incharge between 2018 and 2024, wrote in an article while analysing the defeat in Maharashtra that they can't blame anyone else, they lost Maharashtra due to shortcomings within the Congress party and the INDI Alliance..."
Trivedi's remark came after Rahul Gandhi on Thursday warned the Election Commission that the opposition would not let them get away with the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise in Bihar.
"I want to send a message to the Election Commission: If you think you are going to get away with it, if your officers think they are going to get away with it, you are mistaken. You are not going to get away with it, because we are going to come for you," Lok Sabha LoP told reporters outside Parliament, just after the Lok Sabha was adjourned on Thursday.
Additionally, Sudhanshu Trivedi reflected on Prime Minister Narendra Modi surpassing Indira Gandhi and becoming the second-longest-serving PM of India in consecutive terms.
"PM Narendra Modi has completed 4078 consecutive days of his tenure. Surpassing Indira Gandhi's record, after Jawaharlal Nehru, he has become the longest-serving PM..On one hand, the other two PMs' tenures had black chapters of arbitrariness; this tenure has golden chapters of development," he said.
Trivedi emphasised, "PM Narendra Modi is a PM who was elected through a public mandate. Whereas, when Indira ji and Nehru ji became the PMs for the first time, it was not through a public mandate but due to the situation."
PM Modi is the first non-Congress Prime Minister to mark this achievement. Additionally, Narendra Modi is the first Prime Minister born after independence and the longest-serving from a non-Hindi state.