BJP's ''Forgery'' To Divert Attention: Congress On "Toolkit" Charge

BJP had accused Congress of having an alleged toolkit, saying it wants to tarnish the image of the country and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The Congress Wednesday hit out at the BJP over the toolkit issue, accusing the ruling party of deploying "forgery" to divert public attention from the government's alleged failures in managing the coronavirus pandemic. Congress chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said the BJP does not want to answer the public over its alleged failures to provide life-saving medicines, ventilators and ICU beds during the pandemic, and thus was resorting to such tactics. On Tuesday, The BJP had slammed the Congress over an alleged toolkit of the opposition party, saying it wants to tarnish the image of the country and Prime Minister Narendra Modi by calling the new strain of the coronavirus the "India strain" or the "Modi strain". Mr Surjewala told reporters on Wednesday that the document on Covid ''toolkit'' is forged even though his party owned up to another paper pertaining to the central vista project.