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| Congress hits back at Shekhawat over Sonia's foreign origin | | | NEW DELHI, JULY 7
The Congress today hit back at Bhairon Singh Shekhawat for raking up Sonia Gandhi's foreign origin issue as it stepped up its attack on the Vice-President for having served under the British during the freedom movement.
"It is supremely ironical that here is a foreigner who has chosen India as her 'karambhoomi' and family while 1942 saw an Indian ignoring Mahatama Gandhi's call for freedom struggle and join a British-run police force. The public can decide the contrast for themselves," Congress spokesman Abhishek Singvi said.
He insisted the BJP "owed" its successive defeats to its campaign against Gandhi over her origin, and recalled Shekhawat's spokesperson Sushma Swaraj too had lost her election against the Congress chief in Bellary.
"Not only Sushma Swaraj had lost her election after raising the issue, the BJP also suffered defeats after defeats despite raising it again and again," Singhvi said.
His comments followed Swaraj's remarks that Gandhi's foreign origin was a "100 per cent" political issue and that Congress has lost its "moral right" to talk about the freedom struggle after accepting a "foreigner" as its president.
Shekhawat's spokesperson was responding to the Congress charge that the Vice-President had joined police at a time when others were quitting jobs to take a plunge in the freedom struggle.
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