JD(S) leader and Union Minister H D Kumaraswamy on Thursday said that the present Congress in the country is not the “original” one, and hit out at the party’s leadership, stating that fake Gandhis are doing politics in the name of Mahatma Gandhi.
Noting that Gandhi had called for the disbanding of the Congress, he slammed its state unit, terming it as the party of ” Ali Baba and the forty thieves”, and targeted its government in Karnataka.
“Today the Congress leaders have gathered in Belagavi in the name of Gandhi to commemorate the centenary celebrations of the Indian National Congress session that was presided over by him. The government is spending crores of rupees on it, but I did not see Gandhi’s cutout anywhere, instead of Gandhi, the fake Gandhis who are doing politics in the name of Gandhi. Their large scale cutout has been erected,” Kumaraswamy said.
