Bharatiya Janata Party MP Harnath Singh Yadav on Sunday lashed out at his own party leader Varun Gandhi for questioning the Uttar Pradesh government over the alleged lathi-charge on protesters in Lucknow. Singh alleged Varun was speaking the language of the Congress and if he wanted to speak against the BJP, he should have quit the party.
"Varun Gandhi is speaking the language of the Congress. If there is any morality left in him and if has made up his mind that he will speak against the BJP and wants to go to Congress or anywhere else, then he should immediately resign from the BJP," said Yadav.
The Rajya Sabha MP asked Varun to respect the dignity and discipline of the BJP as long as he remains in the party.
Earlier in the day, Varun took to Twitter to slam the UP police for using batons on people holding candlelight march against the alleged irregularities in the 2019 UP teachers’ entrance test.
"These are also children of Bharat (Maa). Forget about accepting their demands, there is no one ready to even listen to them. And then they are made to face this barbaric lathi charge,” he said, sharing a video clip of the alleged incident.
"Would they have faced the same treatment if they had been your children? You have vacancies as well as qualified candidates. Then why are you not filling the vacancies?" he asked.
After Varun’s tweet, his cousins and Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi, too, took to the micro-blogging site to protest against the police action.
Varun has been critical against the central and state governments, both run by the BJP, over a range of issues, putting the saffronparty in a fix on several occasions.
On Thursday, Varun highlighted the lack of government employment opportunities in the country for the young and wondered how long they should keep patience.
Last month, soon after the Centre rolled back the controversial farm laws, Varun shot an online letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying over 700 farmers would have still been alive had he taken the decision earlier.
