PATNA: The Congress Working Committee on Wednesday slammed the Centre’s foreign policy, saying Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘huglomacy’ has backfired and left India diplomatically isolated, unable to secure its national interests.
On vote theft, the party said that the roll revision in Bihar is yet another “dirty trick from BJP’s toolkit” to manipulate electoral rolls and cling on to power. It is a process designed to rob marginalised communities of their voting rights.
The resolutions declared that the BJP-led NDA government at the Centre was “built on a stolen mandate and rigged voter lists,” while slamming India’s foreign policy on China and the US under Modi. The party also reiterated its “dire apprehensions” on the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in Bihar.
The extended Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting, party’s top decision making body meeting in Bihar’s capital Patna just ahead of the crucial assembly polls.
Party’s top brass including its president Mallikarjun Kharge, Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, party general secretaries, incharges, chief ministers and others joined the meeting that took place for the first time after independence.
The CWC passed two resolutions — one political and the other an appeal to voters of Bihar — that was chaired by Kharge and attended by former party chief Rahul Gandhi, treasurer Ajay Maken, general secretaries KC Venugopal, Jairam Ramesh and Sachin Pilot, and Bihar Congress chief Rajesh Kumar, among others.
The resolution read, “The BJP-RSS’s relentless attacks on the Constitution and the Republic have continued unabated. The fundamental principles of our democracy — liberty, equality, fraternity, and justice — are being demolished brick by brick.”
It said that the Prime Minister’s “huglomacy” has backfired, leaving India “diplomatically isolated and unable to secure its national interests”.
It also noted that it is “profoundly worried by collapse of India’s foreign policy”.
Seizing on US President Donald Trump’s remarks that he used trade as a bargaining chip to coerce India into halting Operation Sindoor against Pakistan, the CWC said that the government has refused to address these claims.
The government, on its part, has repeatedly rejected claims of a third-party mediation during Operation Sindoor, with Prime Minister Modi directly telling Trump in a phone call that a ceasefire was reached during military talks.
The CWC resolution further stated that India is facing “economic devastation wrought by the government”, claiming that the Centre is trying to manipulate data to create the image of a booming economy.
It further alleged that “under BJP, social justice [is] being trampled on while reservations are routinely eroded through rampant privatisation.”
Meanwhile, on vote theft issue, the party said, “Vote chori’ and irregularities in our electoral rolls have shaken public belief in the very foundations of our democracy.
The CWC resolved to salute Rahul Gandhi for boldly exposing the shameless ‘vote chori’ and bravely fighting these brazen attempts to subvert democracy.”
“This exposes the systematic and deliberate conspiracy used to manufacture an elected majority for the BJP. A government built on stolen mandates and rigged voter lists has no moral or political legitimacy,” the political resolution said.
“It is not based on public trust but on deceit. In the absence of democratic accountability, the government is freed of any obligation to care about unemployment, farmer suicides, inflation, crumbling healthcare, ruined education and crumbling infrastructure. The government is apathetic because it knows that it can remain in power not through service but through deceit and fear,” the resolution said.
‘Vote chor’ is inseparable from attacks on the Constitution, the economy, social justice, and national security, it said.
It is the single thread that exposes the regime’s illegitimacy and its actions, the resolution read.
It also stated that its dire apprehension regarding the “Special Intensive Revision” in Bihar as “yet another dirty trick from the BJP’s toolkit to manipulate electoral rolls and cling to power.”
“Their aim is clear: to disenfranchise the poor, workers, backward classes and minorities – the very people who are determined to oust the NDA from Bihar,” the CWC said.
In its appeal to Bihar voters, the CWC urged the people to recognize the power of their vote.
