BJP's focus is to bring down elected governments since 2014, says Jairam Ramesh

Congress leader Jairam Ramesh said that the focus of the BJP is to bring down the elected governments of the states since 2014. His statement came after Eknath Shinde took oath as the Chief Minister of Maharashtra.

After Eknath Shinde took oath as the Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Congress leader Jairam Ramesh said that since 2014, the focus of the BJP has been to bring down the elected governments in states. Jairam Ramesh, who is also the All India Congress Committee (AICC) general secretary in-charge of communications, said that the offices of governors, speakers, central agencies like the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) are openly misused.

Jairam Ramesh said, "Since 2014, the prime focus of the BJP has been to bring down elected governments in states rather than serve the public. The offices of the Governors and Speakers, and agencies like ED and CBI are openly misused. Buying MLAs has become so common that the Finance Minister blurted out the truth today, when she suggested imposition of GST on horse-trading."

Slamming the BJP, the Congress MP said, "Through the naked display of money and muscle power, the BJP has undemocratically and unethically captured yet another state government. Under the Modi-Shah duo, the BJP wants to capture power at any cost, either directly or through remote control. What happened in Maharashtra is shameful for Indian democracy."

The Congress leader said, "BJP can go to any extent to win elections-from misuse of money power to polarization and violence. Despite using all these tactics, if the voters reject them, then they start hatching conspiracies to topple elected governments."

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The opposition leader said, "The BJP brought down the Congress government in Uttarakhand in 2016 in a similar way. The government, elected for five years, was reduced to a minority in four years by engineering defections. In the same year, in Arunachal Pradesh, 43 out of 44 Congress MLAs were made to defect to the BJP-backed Front- People's Party of Arunachal under the leadership of Chief Minister Shri Pema Khandu."

He added, "The Congress party was the single largest party by winning 28 out of 60 seats in the 2017 assembly elections in Manipur. The BJP had only 21 seats but the Congress was not given a chance by the Governor to prove its majority."